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Re: The real skinny

Lukas Beeler wrote:
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
with it's IOP/IOA structure, has allowed small CPUs to handle more
business application users than pretty much any other system
architecture devised.

IOPs are going away with POWER6, and the newest high performance disk
IOAs are already IOPless.

If you have the opportunity, look into the insides of a System x3650
and compare it to the insides of a Modell 515. Tell me which one is
better designed.

You too, Lukas. Try to read the post as written. I was talking about the iSeries (and IOA/IOP) in the past.

Joe

P.S. As to which is better designed internally, I don't care. But that's just me, I don't do hardware.


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