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- From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
- Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:48:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.194852.26785@wes.on.ca>
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- KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
- > Funny you should mention that. We currently market via OEM channels the
- > "IBM Personal/370 Adapter/A". This is a "real" 370 co-processor on a single
- > MicroChannel Card. It contains 16M of on card memory and executes the
- > complete 370 instruction set, including DAT, PER, keys, extended floating
- > point, VM assist, etc..
-
- But is it upward compatible with the IBM PC XT/370? :) Seriously, though,
- I'm curious about the cost of such an adapter. What does it list for?
-
- > The P/370 is a single card 370 engine that runs the full System/370
- > architecture. Its roughly equivalent to a mid-size 4381.
-
- ...except for the I/O architecture, which is oene of the biggest reasons
- behind IBM mainframes' speed.
-
- It'd be pretty exciting, though, to be able to run JCL on the desktop!
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- [ \tom haapanen "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
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