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To: Jules B. Garfunkel who wrote (2955)	4/25/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: Hsien W. Chang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8220

Jules: Most of the world's data is on the System 360/370/390 based architecture. Regardless how much and how many Intel can come up with in the required processor hardware, one still has to convert from the System/390 based architecture software to that of Intel. This is not a small and inexpensive task!

To: Jules B. Garfunkel who wrote (2955)	4/26/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: Robert Scott Diver	Respond to of 8220

Jules, Can you name one company that is using Deschutes to do S/390 class processing? If you could, it would surprise me because (1) Deschutes is not as powerful as IBM's high end processors and (2) while IBM can combine 100's of processors in a single image, I haven't heard of Intel processors presenting a single image in the high teens. Smaller processors with lower parallelism can't provide high end MIPS. If you need big iron, Intel based solutions aren't in the running. Scott ... BTW I am talking about the real world, not lab experiments.