jonathan@axecore.UUCP (Jonathan Eunice) (01/01/90)
It was my impression that AIX/370, as well as TCF for AIX/370 and AIX PS/2, were supposed to become available in the 4th quarter of 1989. The quarter has come and gone, but I haven't heard whether these products actually arrived. Does anyone know the situation? If they have arrived, any idea of the pricing? Also, I was told that AIX/370 won't be particularly effective on the smaller 370 systems such as the 43xx and the 9370s. Can someone tell me whether this is true, and why? Jonathan Eunice uunet!axecore!jonathan D.H. Brown Associates 914-631-7859
jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel) (01/02/90)
In article <270@axecore.UUCP> jonathan@axecore.UUCP (Jonathan Eunice) writes: >It was my impression that AIX/370, as well as TCF for AIX/370 and AIX >PS/2, were supposed to become available in the 4th quarter of 1989. >The quarter has come and gone, but I haven't heard whether these >products actually arrived. Does anyone know the situation? >If they have arrived, any idea of the pricing? I don't know whether there has been an official IBM press release on this subject or not (i.e.,whether AIX370 would be available 4th quarter 89), I know it was the goal. Neither is this to be taken as an official statement, but I believe general availablity is now targeted as end of 1st quarter 1990. You would be better off, however to pester your IBM representative for an official word. >Also, I was told that AIX/370 won't be particularly effective on the >smaller 370 systems such as the 43xx and the 9370s. Can someone tell me >whether this is true, and why? Who told you this?? "effective" is a relative term, certainly AIX won't be as fast on say a 4361 or 9370 model 60 as it would on a 3090, but that is not to say it is not perfectly useable. It is more a matter of effective for what. On a 3090 it is feasible to run multiple virtual AIX systems and support hundreds of users, on a 9370 this number will dwindle but still be respectable. The main consideration is whether your 370 is XA or not, if not we are talking about a 16Meg virtual address space, if it is XA we have 2Gig; so the XA systems can run larger processes, they also typically have more main storage and thus do less swapping/paging. A high-end (that is to say dual-processor and maxed memory) 4381 running VM/XA is a very usable AIX platform. With GA I believe IBM will be publishing some relative performance data that should make evaluation of what hardware will be suitable for what requirements, so again, talk to your IBM salesperson. Happy New Year!! Disclaimer: These are my opinions not official IBM or LCC statements! -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@seas.ucla.edu AIX Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@ifs.umich.edu