Amdahl 580 Systems SOFTWARE PRICES

Special note should be made that all assemblies and subassemblies in the IPC are not to be con- sidered Field Replaceable Units (FRUS). When ordering replacement parts, as

While many users may not imme- diately require the power of the Amdahl 580, it does provide the Amdahl customer and prospect with an orderly growth path that includes

ADDITIONAL PROCESSOR FEATURES: Other fea- tures ofthe System/370 found in the Amdahl 580 processors include control registers, direct addressing, double word buffer,

Model 5850 CPU Complex; includes two 32K-byte buffer storage units, one byte multiplexer channel, console, power distribution unit, 580/Expanded Storage, and

a Storage Unit that controls accesses to main memory and includes both virtual address translation hardware and a cache memory; an Instruction Unit for controlling

It polls each channel every 16 cycles for service requests, concurrently transfers data in both directions between the Storage Unit and the Channel Buffer

VM/PE implements a new dispatching interface, P lOS handling of its dedicated channel I/O operations, a restart facility for VM/370 after a control program

In the Amdahl units, a machine check extended logout (MCEL) is performed by the Console Processor in its own memory, whereas in the System/370 the address in main