[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Michael Schiller wrote:

> >> I'd agree with that.  I think my best looking machine is my S/390 G5.
> >> That's a thing of beauty.
> > Lucky bastard.
>
> I've never seen an S/390, but after seeing Dave's big Cray my SS2000 is
> sort of plain looking :)

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/s390/pes/

That's what it looks like.  There's quite a bit of info there too.

> BTW, does quantity of CPUs make up for lack of speed? I mean it's
> impressive having a machine with 20 CPUs in it, but then each one only
> runs at 85mhz!

My S/390 G5 has 10 CPU's.  I have no idea what the clock rate is, but
S/390's are not RISC by any stretch of the imagination.  They're about as
CISC as they come.

Peace...  Sridhar