Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!edsews!edsdrd!rnd From: rnd@edsdrd.eds.com (Randy Diffenderfer) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: In defense of (cough) IBM (was: In defense of the VAX) Message-ID: <123@endeavor.edsdrd.eds.com> Date: 21 Feb 89 21:58:38 GMT References: <4592@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <1226@husc6.harvard.edu> Organization: EDS Research and Development, Auburn Hills, MI 48057 Lines: 19 In article <1226@husc6.harvard.edu>, reiter@babbage.harvard.edu (Ehud Reiter) writes: > ... > This contrasts with the > IBM 370-class machines, which suffer greatly from lack of address space, > which *is* very much an annoyance to the programmer and even the end-user. In the 'olden' days [pre-XA or pre-ESA], this was significantly true. I think IBM jocks would defend XA's 2GB/as and ESA's 4TB (can you say "how the h*** can I afford the backing store?") as having relieved that annoyance. NOW the annoyance is figuring out how to efficiently use the room! :-) -- Randy Diffenderfer - Electronic Data Systems | Michigan seems like rnd@edsdrd.eds.com | a dream to me now... USENET: ... {rutgers!rel,uunet}!edsews!edsdrd!rnd