On Sep 4, 2024, at 8:26 PM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: I think people need to remember that zAAP and zIIP were not any kind of advance in technology, but rather a triumph of IBM marketing. IBM did a great job of positioning these two as so-called "specialty" engines, with the implication that they are somehow better or optimized for running their respective kinds of workloads.
I’ve explained zAAPs and zIIPs as “games IBM plays to keep mainframes somewhat price competitive without lowering list prices.” -- Curtis Pew Enterprise Technologies, Campus IT Infrastructure and Services, Mainframe and Administrative Systems The University of Texas at Austin curtis....@austin.utexas.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
