Amdahl Corp has worked out what is involved and has now committed to implementing on its 5890E mainframes the Move-Page Facility introduced by IBM last year for the 3090s. The Facility is an extension to the 370/ESA computer architecture to support the new Hiperbatch function that improves the batch performance in some applications. The company already committed to doing Move-Page Facility on the top-end 5990s on November, and will be available on all 5990s, including those already installed with us ers, in the second quarter at no charge, following as an option on the 5890Es in third quarter at $45,000 for uni- and dual process ors, and $85,000 on multis.
