Hi,

On 8 Apr 2001, at 10:40, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:

> the real numbers are probably weak or IBM would show them for
> sure.

You could also require the others to show mainframe numbers. Any 
target market has other numbers, may that be transactions per 
second or gatter operatiosn per second or whatever. 

However, the S/390 has its "MIPS" that is not compareable to our 
Misleading Information on Processor Speed.

You may want to visit "http://www.acude.org/roam.htm" (be shure 
to use lynx or something that eliminates the dark grey background 
to make the black text visible!).

They say:
"Did anyone notice that the crown jewel from Sun Microsystems, 
the Starfire, fully equipped actually is more expensive than a top of 
the line Mainframe from e.g. Hitachi? I personally think this should 
be an incitement for the typical mainframe manufacturer to wake up 
and put some serious thought into porting something like Linux to 
the mainframe.
Unix systems are slowly getting up on the same levels as the 
traditional mainframe have had for years. Sun claims to deliver 
some 3000 mainframe MIPS on a 64-way 64 bit 400 MHz 
UltraSparc 64Gbyte Starfire."

mike