Mainframe Introduction
- Peripherals - (Input / Output Devices)
- Disks, Cartridges, etc
- Memory
- Processors
- Processor Resource/Systems Management (PR/SM)
- Operating Systems
- Mainframe and the Cloud
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Introduction to the IBM Mainframe
Processors
Having reviewed mainframe peripherals and memory this final hardware topic looks at the processors and how they are used.
As will be seen, scale is significant, but virtualisation plays a key role in the use of mainframes, as typically they run
multiple system images whether they are copies of the same Operating System or different ones.