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

vance at neurotica.com vance at neurotica.com
Wed Mar 12 08:03:10 CST 2003


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

> > > 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.
>
> Emulated?

It doesn't use a full set of coprocessed I/O channels.  The channel
processing is done by a host PC.

PEace...  Sridhar


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