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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
- Message-ID: <19921219.175554.263@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 20:45:33 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
- Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
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- X-X-From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Ken Kahn)
- References: <1992Dec15.214233.2419@cs.brown.edu> <85588@ut-emx.uucp> <19921219.080815.839@almaden.ibm.com>
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- In <1992Dec19.194852.26785@wes.on.ca> Tom Haapanen writes:
- >KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
- >
- >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?
- >
-
- I certainly hope not, the XT/370 was not something you want to emulate. The
- P/370 was designed from scratch. Since the card is currently OEM only, the
- price will vary depending on the contracts signed. A good esitimate is about
- $5000 per card, give or take.
-
- >...except for the I/O architecture, which is oene of the biggest reasons
- >behind IBM mainframes' speed.
- >
-
- Granted the I/O of the workstation is the biggest bottleneck. Running on a
- 50 Mhz Model-95 though, we get around 3.5 370 MIPs.
-
- >It'd be pretty exciting, though, to be able to run JCL on the desktop!
-
- You get excited easily don't you :-)
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