Re: Cores, Threads and Intel vs Power7 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Cores, Threads and Intel vs Power7
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:26:06 -0700
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I wrote:
>> Anybody remember when "core" was a type of memory?Joe Pluta wrote:

to which Joe Pluta replied:

Sure... any of us who worked on a System/3 remember!

And I suddenly find myself imagining an IBM 370 owner installing a handful of DRAM chips, and then turning in the large cabinet full of ferrite they replaced. For a "core charge."

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JHHL

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