21 May
2016
21 May
'16
8:58 a.m.
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_cmo…
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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