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To: paul who wrote (42383)	3/25/2001 1:57:30 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

There was a fairly pervasive problem with I/O on UE10000 and UE6500 machines in late 1999 and throughout 2000 which was initially thought to be a bad batch of I/O subsystem components but later turned out to be a contention problem when the systems were heavily loaded. I think it is solved now, I have not heard anything about it in months. I tend to agree on IBM and HP - IBM has had very strong partitioning capability in the mainframe line for a long time but held that back from the other products to maintain differentiation. Like Compaq, they had leadership technology but were unable to make much market hay out of it except in mainframes.