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To: Windsock who wrote (119057)	11/23/2000 12:09:03 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

"The good news is that right now, twenty Itanium pilot systems are in place at large corporate customers, with plans to increase that to the hundreds in Q1 2001." Isn't this the method that IBM used for introducing the Big Iron System 390 in the 80's? Then it was called "Beta Tests" when select members or the Fortune 500 were running 390's in their data centers on enterprise critical operations. >>Tony, can you jump in here and tell us what really happened Windsock, S390 ramped up pretty fast because it wasn't a whole lot different from S370. Sure, CMOS replaced ECL, but all the data paths were the same and only a handful of new instructions were added. S390 still ran MVS, MVS/ESA, VM/ESA, with CICS, VTAM, JES/2etc. apps, which were already there from way back. You could basically forklift out an S370 mainframe and drop in a S390 in its place. Itanium is definitely more revolutionary. Tony