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Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Scott Dorsey

Re: Inside an IBM z17

06 May 25 23:47:14

   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 6 May 2025 18:59:32 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > You mean like word processing on PROFS where the editor is basically   
   > running on the channel controller?  That is great and extremely zippy   
   > over a slow network.  Far better performance with any network latency   
   > than trying to send everything over the connection.   
      
   I’m sure it is, but given the channel controller is not a general-purpose   
   CPU, you are going to pay the price in app functionality.   
      
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