Re: Plates on sticks -- MIDRANGE-L

>Well I guess that the PC data bases will handle a Million or more records, 
>Now if only the PC plateform and its memory were stable enough to 
>trust............ By the way guys and gals,  How many "memory" errors on 
>the AS/400 do you remember over the last 5 - 10 years ? ? ?   Just 
>curious. (68ns or were they 72ns chips?)

No (silicon) memory errors, 'cept cheap old SIMMs in Mac needed reseating. 

IBM does a fine job insulating many technical issues. Their "plateform" 
makes it easy for us up front, this saves them on the back (support) end. 
Very difficult concept to market to a commodity-oriented buyer. 

Are some machine check messages memory errors? Has anybody seen one?

Fave machine check error message: CPF34D0 <check it out>. Never actually 
received it, saw it in a "Street Talk" a couple years ago. Someone's 
still laughing in Rochester.

>I don't know why this reminds me of the Ed Sullivan shows where there was 
>an act of a guy putting plates and spinning them on top of long sticks. 

LOL. Cause you were there, gremper, as was I.

>He would add more and more sticks with plates and run back and forth to 
>keep the existing sticks/plates spinning as he tried to add more. 
>(Inevitably some of the sticks/plates would fall and we'd all laugh) 
>(I guess I'm showing my age now but I was very very young then) 

Not among this crowd. Though there are some folks out here that could 
only have seen this on archival vids. :P

>It seems just as we get one plate spinning on the PC stick(millions of 
>records in Data Bases) we got to hurry up and fix the other sticks (Memory 
>problems/ Win95 upgrades, /driver, driver whos got the driver,/ CA95/  
>etc)      But its nice to know that the consistent solution that will 
>always get recommended is that we get new sticks.

And they just keep costing less, in a constant sort of way. Let's see, at 
any point in time the hardwood stick costs $50, the usable pine stick is 
$30, and the "you don't want that" stick is $7-15, depending. And the 
plates you can use on each follow the same sort of curve, both in 
purchase and upkeep.

Paraphrasing Lou's San Antonio pitch: At his old consumer goods post, 
he's asking what latest x86->x86 admin upgrade would yield. Answer: 
Newer, faster something for all admin, and it only cost x. Question: What 
are our plans, to send them home early?

A good rule: Benchmark productivity.

>I guess I have a weird sense of humor.

Yeah, you right, but it works here. Nice comparison.


Chris Rehm wrote...

>>I have DB2 for OS/2 and it says it is limited to 4,000,000,000 records
>>(rows). I really haven't run into that limit yet.
>>I does say that the maximum size of a table is 64GB. 

Would you need records 16 bytes or smaller to approach [%-) this limit?


Jerome Hughes               jromeh@aol.com
InterPro Consulting, Inc.   http://www.interproinc.com
Rosemont IL USA             these are my own opinions only

April is the cruelest month, breeding 
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 
Memory and desire, stirring 
Dull roots with spring rain. 

-- T.S. Eliot The Waste Land, 1922. (Maureen reminded me.)



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