[rescue] Anyone want a low-power small fast mainframe?

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3406111673&ssPageName=AD
> >ME:B:LC:US:1
> >
> > I have nothing to do with the auction, but it's a *really* nice
> > machine. I wish I had the money.  This will have no trouble running
> > the latest z/VM or z/OS.
>
> Hey, my dad must see this :-)
>
> He works with this baby's bigger brother as a storage admin. Doesn't know a
> sh*t about unix though :)

Define what you mean by "this baby's bigger brother".  This is the largest
mainframe with PC emulated I/O.  If you go any bigger, and the
architecture implementation is completely different.  And the power
consumption and size are both significantly larger.

Peace...  Sridhar