One is what the iSeries team refers to as direct and it is like pSeries Linux I/O. The I/O device is assigned specifically to the Linux partition and is fully managed by the Linux OS. The lists of devices are linked from the Linux on iSeries web pages at http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/linux/support.html.
The gulag system according to Russian statistics caused 1,053,829 deaths [1] or maybe 1.6 million. The Nazi death camps alone killed 3.2 million people[2] (in a period of 4-5 years 1941-1945), not to mention the endless number of labour and POW camps where millions perished as well.
A brief summary of the number of dead can be found below: 1  Germany the overall total is given as just under 7.4 million. 2  Soviet soldiers roughly around 8.7 million Soviet soldiers died in World War 2. 3  British 700,000 military casualitits and 60,000 civilian deaths.4  Estimated USSR losses now stand at 26.6 million.t can vary as to were you look, as for example Wikipedia has a great article on how many people died in world war 2 World War2 which leans towards the scary figure of 72 million people.