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Enterprise Systems Journal,  September, 1998  

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G5 Breaks 1,000 MIPS

Advancing in this summer's MIPS war, the S/390 G5 Parallel Enterprise Server 10-way Turbo model passed the 1,000 MIPS (1,040 MIPS) barrier making it the industry's first available mainframe server to offer more than 1,000 MIPS performance in a single system.

At the same time, IBM announced it was expanding the high end of the S/390 G5 Server family with two additional models. The S/390 G5 is a general purpose, enterprise business computer that can support thousands of users performing mixed workloads -- a variety of tasks at the same time -- from e-mail to ...

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