RE: MMA machines

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heh. My son in the Army has moved up from an M16 to an M249.

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:51 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: MMA machines

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 16:59, Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> They don't mean nuthin. They weren't supposed to be uttered in public. The
> machine is a POWER6 570 but they went off and made it a 9406-MMA so
> everyone IMMEDIATELY (ESPECIALLY because they told us NOT to) called it an
> MMA and the term 570 got left behind like old bath water.

Well, you now have the same problem with ALL machines.

With Power 5 it was pretty clear - when you said 520, you meant a 520.
When you said 520+, you meant a POWER5+ 520.

M15 is much easier to say than "single core POWER6 520".