[moved to port-s390]

On Friday,  6 April 2001 at 21:57:45 -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:00:56PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> IBM has recently renamed all their product lines to "xSeries", for
>> some value of x.  I'm not sure what the 390 is; I thought I heard
>
> The S/390 machines are still S/390 machines. The new machines are the
> 64-bit systems, and those are the z/Architecture. The older systems
> are still around (ie, the P/390, the Multiprise machines, etc).
>
> IBM likes to use four-digit numbers with another code suffixed
> with a dash, and mainframes are no exception. For example, we have
> a Multiprise 3000 at work and it identifies itself as a 7090-H70
> (but I'm not sure about the 90 part, it might be 7050 or something
> else).

I'd hope it wouldn't be 7090.  That was a very different IBM machine,
which predates the /360 family.  But I suppose they're going to run
out of 4 digit numbers after a while.

Greg
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