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- From: abledsoe@feenix.metronet.com (Alton Bledsoe)
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
- References: <Bzuu1x.CKA@ns1.nodak.edu> <1992Dec26.093547.29050@actrix.gen.nz> <1hidjiINN2io@neuro.usc.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:48:43 GMT
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- In article <1hidjiINN2io@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec26.093547.29050@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>... mainframes are a long way from being dead.
- >
- >When/if an effective multithreaded SMP CISC or RISC platform
- >is made available in a small package with interfaces for the
- >existing IBM mainframe network front ends or lower level com
- >gear then mainframes may be arguably dead.
- >
- >
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- Could the POWER/4 smp parallel 42 MHz x4 RS/6000 with shared memory
- @ 336 MFLOPS be close? Mostly a number cruncher, granted, but is IBM
- working on Futurebus+ or any other IO increasing technology for the
- RS/6000 type architecture??
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