> What do you mean non-standard?  Every single bank, every single insurance 
> company, every single government tax agency/ministry/dept., most airline, 
> universities, and large companies with more than a 1000 employees 
> worldwide has one or more IBM mainframes.

And they also have 1000 or more x86 machines each :-)  That's what I meant, 
that way more x86/x64 CPUs are manufactured, so obviously they are cheaper. 
I just wondered if you worked it out on a performance per $ metric (eg how 
many $ equipment do you need to print 30 million bills in 24 hours), would 
using the IBM mainframe be cheaper than using a room full of x86 machines?

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