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Re:IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design by Quequau on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:20AM (#18494990)
Every time I read tech news on IBM's Z series mainframes I wonder what a minimum viable / reasonable build out of this hardware might be. As a regular human there's no way or reason I'd ever really need an actual mainframe but the hardware itself has fascinated me for a long time.
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Re:IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design by pjmlp on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:23AM (#18495022)
Back in 1994, the IBM OS/400 range had a small enough model that we could even sit on it.

Think of those big tower PCs of yore, just a big larger.

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Re:IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design by dfox on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @05:54PM (#18498622)
IIRC most of the 90's AS/400's are of similar size as contemporary servers. Or twice as big when they have "Integrated something whatever Facility", which is simply an x86 server that occupies half of the enclosure.
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