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Subject:    Re: Multiprise 3000, was Re: S/390 in Aurora, CO. Public Surplus Auction
From:       Stefan Skoglund <Stefan.Skoglund () agj ! net>
Date:       2012-03-29 20:10:25
Message-ID: 1333051825.4261.5.camel () compaq ! lokeldarn ! hobby-site ! org
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tor 2012-03-29 klockan 08:49 -0400 skrev Dave McGuire:
> On 03/29/2012 08:40 AM, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
> >>    This is an IBM Multiprise 3000, which made its debut in, I think, 
> >> 2000 or so.  It's basically an S/390 G5 (no connection to the PowerPC 
> >> processor of the same name) with a scaled-down I/O subsystem.  It can be 
> >> either uniprocessor or dual.  They're really nice machines, very compact 
> >> for a real mainframe, and quite fast as long as you don't do extremely 
> >> heavy I/O...basically it's got the same I/O as the rest of the computing 
> >> world, which is wimpy and puny when compared to real mainframes.  These 
> >> machines are well-suited for S/390 software development for this reason. 
> >>   They're popping up everywhere nowadays due to the IBM mainframe world 
> >> having gone 64-bit several years ago, and the subsequent de-supporting 
> >> of the 31-bit stuff.  (no I didn't mean "32" ;))
> > 
> > 'Everywhere' doesn't include (as far as i can say) Sweden, but the
> > freight from CO for this would be...
> 
>   :-(
> 
> > I would be very happy for a AS/400 or their black descendant.
> 
>   You know this machine has nothing at all to do with AS/400s, right?
> (just checking)
> 
>              -Dave
> 

Except that serie of 390 machine is black and the RISC:based AS/400 also
is black, except for that not much. as long as we doesn't start to
discuss how IBM percepted the future for their mainframes.

OS/400 was how IBM wanted to build a new mainframe operative.

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