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Tom,

I suspect that if they can make a 3800CPW chip run as slow as 600CPW with (what appears to be) little effort, then who knows how low they can go? I would expect, too, that the software that runs to cripple interactive down to 30CPW could also be used to further reduce the 3800CPW to something small. Although, it would be nice to know, I would say few customers would need anything less than 100CPW - at least the price point should be good enough there not to worry about having to go smaller.

My brain keeps saying - small i5 = portable! Then I realize the chip is the same size no matter what the CPW restriction. Then, I look at the Xbox and realize it has 3 Cell chips - based on Power 5. Ok, now I DO want a portable i5!

Trevor


----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Jedrzejewicz"
Subject: Re: Prometheus


On 5/30/06, Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have MANY customers running at 100CPW or close. Their applications are
feature RICH, and they need only a little more CPW - just a server
modernization for new features. To suggest they should depart the platform
is ludicrous. With a server that will run their original AS/400
applications, and can also get them to the web without having to add
servers, etc, they will be able to run their SMB business for years to come.

I am kind of curious what the CPW would be of the smallest system that
could be reasonably made with the least expensive current components?

To use an (imperfect) analogy ...

Lets say I want a PC (or thin client) to run terminal emulation and
web browsing.  I can do this with Linux, and some open source apps.
But there is simply no way to purchase new hardware that is not
ridiculously over-powered for the task.

I suspect that this is the case for the System i as well.



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Tom Jedrzejewicz
tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx


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