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The IBM z series is for mainframes as the article explains. I think they're CISC. They also still make and develop POWER for supercomputing and scieintific work
by guerrilla 5y ago
The IBM z series is for mainframes as the article explains. I think they're CISC. They also still make and develop POWER for supercomputing and scieintific workstations (and a tiny niche "PC" market.) Those supercomputers are dominating the charts though.
- CameronNemo 5y agoWait is the z series POWER or is it s390x?
- josephcsible 5y agoThe z series is s390x.
- guerrilla 5y agoIBM just refers to it as Z/Architecture now, the 64-bit sucessor of S/390 which looks like it ended in '98, no relation to POWER.
- djmips 5y agoSeemed like the Z/Architecture was backward compatible with S/390 up until IBM z13 (launched 2015) according to wiki. "z13s introduce a new vector architecture and are the last z Systems servers to support running an operating system in ESA/390 architecture mode"
- wtallis 5y agoThe operating system now needs to natively support the 64-bit z/Architecture, but application compatibility still goes all the way back to System/360.
- p_l 5y agoHuge chunk of the OS is still 24bit code, then 31bit, little 64bit. The removal of backwards compatibility meant you couldn't setup LPAR or VM with 31bit OS anymore
- flomo 5y ago"s390x" is the Linux nomenclature for this. Probably wasn't selected by IBM marketing.
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- Jweb_Guru 5y agoPOWER hardware is pretty insane, I wish it were more popular for "normal" workloads.