On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:14:20AM +0200, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:
> > >is there architecture info somewhere?
> > 
> > I bet there is, or do you think IBM doesn't advertise their products?
> searched about 2 hours. only found comparisions between older/other s/390
> machines.
> 
> i think there is no comparision to other processors (in specints
> etc.) just because they will look poor. 

My bet would be that mainframers don't ask for SPECints or whatnot.
I don't have any hard evidence of this but I can say that the mainframe
people on the listservs are, um, a different kind of person. That's
not an insult. Red and blue are different colors too.

It is very hard to explain. The culture is totally totally different.
-- 
"A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of
invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor ...
in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser ... in an irregular way
fascinating to cats,..." -- US patent 5443036, "Method of exercising a cat"