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Z and POWER are two distinct architectures.

I know you can get different architectures in a mainframe, including Power. What's Z like?

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248851.html

and

http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr011.pdf

Should pretty much cover it :)

Edit: missed http

Power is way closer to a Xeon than a mainframe.

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