Re: architectural goals, Byte Addressability And Beyond

On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 07:47:49 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig
<tkoenig@netcologne.de> wrote:

John Savard <quadibloc@servername.invalid> schrieb:

If they took it to its logical conclusion, and packaged zArchitecture
chips without the ability to run current IBM operating systems in the
same way as POWER chips, I might actually be interested.

Would you like to buy one, then?  That would be a large investment
of money and space in your home...  but then again, an 18-year old
once bought a z890, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk

Well, when I said "packaged... in the same way as POWER chips", I
meant that they would make systems with fewer CPUs than a mainframe
which were in the category of ordinary desktop computers if they were
to do that... which, of course, they won't.

John Savard