Re: Intel releases 64bit Xeon

From: Bill Todd (billtodd_at_metrocast.net)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:09:16 -0500

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> wrote in message
news:4046C790.253C5463@istop.com...
> Bill Todd wrote:
> > > Note that the 370 architecture doesn't have a bright future since IBM
is
> > > porting MVS over to POWER. (or has that been cancelled ?)
> >
> > Nobody's talking about the 370 architecture, JF.
>
> Isn't that what the p390 systems are ????? I realise that since the 370s,
IBM
> has managed to go to 31 bit adressing (from 24), but isn't it the same
> assembler instructions with a few additions ??

No, the p-Series systems are POWERx systems, running Unix. I don't know if
there ever was a 'p390' (though of course there was, and I assume still is,
an S/390 mainframe).

- bill