Re: Power6 on System i

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Frank actually talked about this at COMMON Europe. He said the hardware will
be identical for z - apart from the chip. There is a ~lot~ of z assembler
and the Power6 does not support mainframe assembler.

Trevor



On 5/23/07 10:27 AM, "Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David -
>
> I was told by someone in the know that with the P6 hardware that the
> mainframe was going to be assimilated into this hardware architecture.
>
> I.E., IBM will announce the availability of z/OS on the new P6 midrange
> hardware platform...
>
> - Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Gibbs" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:31 AM
> Subject: Power6 on System i
>
>
> > I heard from a co-worker, who was at COMMON UK, that Frank Soltis
> > announced that there were new System p models using the Power 6
> > technology where the chip speed is 4.7 GHZ with no special cooling
> > requirements. Apparently Intel could not do this and had to withdraw
> > their fast processors from the market a while back. He was thrilled.
> > When they pre-announced last year clock speeds of 4-5 in the press some
> > analysts called them liars. He seemed vindicated.
> >
> > He also mentioned to expect new System i models NEXT year using this
> > technology.
> >
> > david
> >
> > -- 
> > System i ... for when you can't afford to be out of business