System/390 with Enterprise Systems Architecture

System/390 with Enterprise Systems Architecture

Announced September 1990


 Evolution of ESA/370

 1994 – S/390 Parallel Transaction Server

       – Family of CMOS processors

 1998 – System/390 Generation 5 server – more than 1,000 MIPS

 1999 -  System/390 Generation 6 Server - Copper Chip Technology

 Common set of peripheral devices

     – RAMAC, Enterprise Storage Subsystem disk

     – 3590 Magstar tape

 Family of operating systems

      – MVS/ESA  OS/390

      – VSE/ESA

      – VM/ESA

      – AIX/ESA

      – Linux for S/390 (December 1999)