23 Jul
2020
23 Jul
'20
2:50 p.m.
On 7/23/20 11:24 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Is there a reason why he answered the OS, but not what
the system was?
Having interacted with @bmoshix, I'm taking his "mainframe" answer to
mean that it's probably either (one of) his zPDT / RDz (IBM's answer to
Hercule) -or- one of the physical mainframes that he has access to /
time on. I'm now sort of betting that it's Linux running in an LPAR or
as a z/VM guest.
You can probably glean more information about the mainframes that
@bmoshix owns and / or has access to by watching his videos on YouTube.
What sort of mainframe would somebody be ashamed of?
I doubt that he's ashamed of it in any way.
Most of us would be proud of ownership of ANY brand or
model of mainframe.
Yep.
Q: What is the definition of mainframe?
Lose a scope in it?
Need a forklift and a union moving crew?
Something you buy from IBM? ;-)
I'm going to say something that runs a mainframe OS.
This includes IBM's zPDT & RDz which are software emulators. It also
includes a P/390-E, et al., card that has a physical S/390 processor.
I bet that Hercules qualifies here too. But that's an /emulated/
mainframe. Much like zPDT & RDz.
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Grant. . . .
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