[Gllug] Crashes (owing to the heatwave?)

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 8 Aug 2003, Chris Bell wrote:
>   Rows of expensive cabinets give no indication of what is inside a modern
>mainframe. I assume that a real computer does not have rows of risc chips in
>lots of packaging that make them appear slightly better than rows of 486's.
>   Do they use specialist chips, or groups of slightly better known chips
>working in parallel to get longer words?

The S/390 uses the IBM/Motorola PowerPC CPUs, which are of course also
found in Macintoshes (albeit not the exact same parts) and
conventional memory.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> Kill the tomato!

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