> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] För > R.S. > Skickat: den 16 april 2012 16:42 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 & z114 > > W dniu 2012-04-16 16:33, Alvaro Guirao Lopez pisze: > > I have seeked but found nothing about this, why the new servers have > been > > named z196& z114 and not Z11 EC& Z11 BC? > > > Why not z11? I don't know. > Why 196 and 114? I heard about it: > 1xx means FIRST generation (of what? naming convention?) > 96 means number of processors inside. Note, you can buy "only" 80 of > them, but it really contains 96 processors, inlcuidng SAPs and spares. > 14 is for M10 model (4 are for spares and SAPs). > > > BTW: I really can't understand "marketing names" like z196, TS1140, or > DS8000. Why don't they use names like Jaguar (ok, it's partially used), > MAGSTAR, T-REX, MtBlanc or Cindy Crawford? > > Last, bit not least: Athlon, or Pentium sounds much better than CMOS > 11S. > > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland
I would then suggest names more like: zEUS, HERA, HERMES, GILGAMESH, etc. :) Regards, Thomas Berg ______________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/DQS SWEDBANK AB (publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
