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But isn't it these mega $ projects that fund a lot of the development that shows up later in the everyday boxes? When the PowerPC chips were first heard of I don't think we were thinking they would be running in AS/400s, but that's where they ended up. And it appears that IBM is leaning towards developing universal chips it can use in all lines. It would make sense that as soon as the mega invoice is paid, they produce a bunch more and announce bigger and faster models of everything. Of course they'll need to come up with bigger brake pads to hold back the interactive users! ;) Jim Whalen DCS Software and Services PH 972 429-8238 jimw2001@hotmail.com ----Original Message Follows---- From: Pat Barber <mboceanside@worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: Peek at iSeries future? Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:14:18 -0500 I didn't really see the I-Series mentioned per se.... This is an old battle IBM fights on a regular basis with the press. This is a "tiny" market for IBM(super computers) but really big $$$ so they continue to come up with the gee wizzzzz size boxes that are faster than the speed of light.... Last I read, the RS/6000 still holds the "title" for fastest of the Unix crowd...but that changes, on what appears to be a daily basis. For the blazing fast boxes, you need(but can't) see the boxes that IBM develops for the good old government(give-mint). I would bet that the boys at NSA and various other agencies have some real sporty processors of varying speeds.... and because of recent events, even more on order. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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