
70 Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/VSE Basics
Hardware - The system hardware consists of all the devices, controllers, and
processors that constitute a mainframe environment:
– Peripheral devices - These include tape drives, disks, and consoles. There
are many other types of devices, some of which are discussed in
Chapter 2, “Mainframe hardware systems” on page 35.
– Processor storage - Often called real or central storage (or memory), this
is where the z/VSE operating system executes. Also, all user programs
share the use of processor storage with the operating system.
As a
big picture of a typical mainframe hardware configuration, Figure ...