IBM Mainframe Hardware from a Linux Hacker's Viewpoint
Malcolm Beattie
Sunday 4th March 2001, 6.30pm
Computing Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford
This talk is intended for those who are unfamiliar with modern IBM mainframe hardware (S/390 and the newly-announced z900). It covers the architecture, reliability and performance characteristics of the hardware of a modern mainframe, compared and contrasted with those of traditional Linux/Unix systems. By the end, IBM jargon such as STI, ESCON, and SAP will hold as little terror as PCI and SCSI and the mild Linux/390 brainwashing will be lurking painlessly in your subconscious.
The entrance is from Parks Road and there are maps at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/ox/maps.html
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Alasdair