Robert Wessel <[email protected]> writes: > If you actually tested, cut and packaged the chips on the other > wafers, you'd get a higher number, but you would not, of course. And > unlike airline seats, mainframe chips are not salable by themselves - > you have to put them in an expensive box full of other electronics > before you can do that. Unlike the airline seat which is there and > ready anyway, whether or not you get a butt into it for a given > flight.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014j.html#93 Demonstrating Moore's law airline seat is in an infrastructure that has fairly high/expensive run rate ... but gets reused over and over (isn't like corner busstop bench) however, presumably the financial industry representing the majority of mainframe sales ... getting rolled over every new generation ... their one generation old machines will show up somehow in the market. however there is the issue of maintaining premium pricing for the majority of the revenue flow ... while still being able to have incremental revenue for remaining (both ibm chips and airline seats) ... a simpler analogy is terms&conditions for IBM's mainframe emulator running on PCs not allowed to be used for production work. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
