strangest systems I've sent email from

William Donzelli wdonzelli at gmail.com
Sat May 21 10:58:20 CDT 2016


Yes, I know - but so what? That is nothing new. The IBM 9370 line from
20-odd years ago was really an 801 inside, running S/370 in emulation.

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Will

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 May 2016 at 17:33, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Unisys is still making new machines as well.
>
>
> Yes it is, but they are x86 boxes running an emulator.
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/26/unisys_finally_weans_itself_off_cmos_chippery/
>
> AFAIK only IBM is still making actual hardware mainframe processors.
> The handful of other remaining vendors are all using software
> emulation on generic x86 hardware. High-end hardware, sure, yes.
>
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