16 Dec
2000
16 Dec
'00
3:38 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Neil Cherry wrote:
It's cool that they're playing with Linux but it's even better that it's
a mainframe. That is one powerful box, I wonder how they fixed the TCP/IP
problem? That problem was that the ethernet was directly connected to the
mainframe which killed the performance (that's was FEPs are for).
The most wonderful thing about a mainframe is that it can just about any
OS on it while running other OS's. And I think they're still some what
compatible with the old 1401, so they can run apps from over 40? years
ago.
BTW, I once watched a mainframe person do pipes and what not on a
mainframe session (3090) as easly as I can under Unix. So I get the
impression there is a lot more power there than I have any knowledge of.
--
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Never let anyone convince you that the Mainframe
is dead. Many of my
customers were about to retire a lot of big iron for NT machines when
they suddenly realized that the Mainframe could play server. They then
figured out it could do a lot more. So we have come full circle so to
speak.
IBM has been pushing Linux on it's S/390 (I think that's the right one)
where you can run thousands of virtual Linux servers on the one mainframe.
In the article I read on it several months ago, someone was able to
instantiate something like 44,000 virtual Linux boxes.