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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (42894)	6/27/2013 9:46:54 AM
From: P2V	Respond to of 46821

I'd love to be able to back up my opinion with facts, but lacking that, my gut feeling is that the answer surely is YES. Very much of the technology "advances", to this day, are based on those Multi-Processing, Multi-programming creations of the 1960s . For instances, a Main Processor delegated work to slave processing systems, via a "work waiting" table. As the workload increased, standby slave systems were brought into the mix. Multi-Plex standalone systems, handled the lower speed I/O tasks, while dedicated "Channel" processors, handled real time tasks, such as streaming Radar data. Do we rely on a highly integrated and efficient mainframe, for some locations ? I think so. FWIW www-03.ibm.com