Re: mainframe career advice


Waldek Hebisch wrote:
>
> Using standard software a single PC can typeset about thousend pages
> per second. A PC database can easily deliver 20 thousend rows per
> second. So, a single PC can generate content for millions of checks
> per hour. It looks that the bottleneck is actual printing: you need
> a sizeable printer farm to handle that load.
>
> Granted, mainframes have bigger IO capacity that desktop PC. But you
> just have to size things correctly, if not desktop then server machines.
> For highest load it looks that IBM Power serwers are the best -- from
> data sheets it looks that top Power machines offer 2-10 times better
> performance (depending of the load) then top Z architecture machines.
>

Could you cite some sources for your numbers? I find them to be rather
on the high end.

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