[Gllug] Crashes (owing to the heatwave?)

Fri Aug 8 13:31:12 UTC 2003

On Fri 08 Aug, David Damerell wrote:
> 

> 
> As I understand it [1], on the S/390 - unlike the partitioned Sun
> machines - the hosted operating systems (I forget IBM's terminology
> for them) are not tied to specific hardware.
> 
   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?

-- 
Chris Bell


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