Re: 40% mark crossed

[Phil Barritt <pbarritt@swbell.net>]

The reason for that big spike has three letters... IBM

   http://www-4.ibm.com/software/is/mp/s390/

later,
phil

Ian Duggan wrote:
> 
> > The s390 has the size of a fridge and the power of a lion.  If you switch it
> > on, the light flickers in that part of the city.  It's the (not-so?) new IBM
> > mainframe, which can run several operating systems in parallel.
> 
> Given. So the assumption is that they just cranked away on some packages
> all of the sudden? The line increases at a moderate rate, not unlike
> ours, and then suddenly spikes. I'm just wondering if maybe the stumbled
> across something that caused a lot of packages to suddenly roll over and
> compile. Afterwards, their rate is again the same as ours, with the
> addition of some downturn as well. We might want to investigate this
> further.
> 
> How would I get in touch with that group?
> 
> --Ian
> 
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