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Yah, there are embedded power processors scattered all over IBM's hardware lines. The z tape controller a couple years ago was just a rack mount POWER server. OTOH, so is x86, the z's HMC, PE's etc are just x86 laptops/servers.

But thats like calling an x86 server an ARM because there are ARM's in the disk controllers, and on the motherboard acting as BMC's/etc.




And mainframes rely on them extensively. Pretty much everything that can be delegated is, leaving the z cores running as little code as possible.


Agreed. I just read "...uses it..." to include things other than the main processors.

(edit: misquote)




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