Magee, Fred (MRC) wrote:
I echo that. I started out in 1972 writing on a CDC 6600 "Super Computer". I wonder how many of those it would take to equal a new 64 bit "desktop"/
By the end of that year I was with another govt department using IBM kit. About 75 we installed a IBm S/370 model 168, then IBM's finest commercial computer, and in due course it was an MP it was running MVS 3.8.
Hercules on a Pentium II runs MVS 3.8 faster. Much faster, and giving it 16 Mb "real" storage (as much as the free versions of OS could support) is no sweat either.
And now we are faced with the prospect of Itanic IBM-compatible mainframes: http://www.itindepth.com/PSI_Ron_Interview.htmIf _that_ works (ie it finds a market), there will be boxes about that can do serious (gigabytes/sec) disk I/O _and_ serious CPU work.