[rescue] IBM :: Different

[Julius Sridhar]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, George Adkins wrote:

> > These aren't mainframes.  These are RS/6000's.  This is *really* a 128MB
> > SRAM cache.  Big ballsy systems.  Microprocessor-based.
> >
> Yes, Yes, I apologize for deigning to write the word 'mainframe'  would you
> be offended or otherwise manage to find some fault if I said 'system' instead?
> (Of course you would, please note in advance the lack of capitalization when
> using the word system here, I meant in no way to imply System, as in System
> 360 or System 390, it was intended to mean system as in the generic term
> referring to 'computer system'.)

You still didn't get what I'm trying to say.  This is not a multi-tiered
main memory architecture.  That is a 128MB transparent Static RAM *cache*.
A *real cache*.  With a hit-detect algorithm and everything.  This is a
UNIX box running on microprocessors.

Peace...  Sridhar