>>> Ahhh. I guess it shows that I've done very very little with mainframes and
>>> learned everything I know on Micros and Mini's. I stand corrected. :)
>> I hope my message did not come across as a flame, but there are a lot of
>> misconceptions about mainframes (the biggest is that they are dead!). They
>> are different beasts, certainly. Almost everything about them is in some
>> way different than the rest of the computing world (micros, minis) - from
>> benchmarks and architecture to fabrication and networking (compare SNA to
>> TCP/IP and you will see black and white).
> Well, as an old DEC guy who later worked for IBM... I agree, although
So, there are at least tree of us holding the
banner for the real (big) guys :)
> with Posix Compliant mainframe software that meets the Unix spec
> and runs the Apache webserver... mainframes aren't mainframes anymore.
Oh-Oh, did you ever took a look at the resulting ASSM code ?
Did yo uever trace the extreamly inperformant I/O calls for
unix like file systems ?
A mainframe can only produce it's marvelous throughput if
the data is well prepared - handling every byte of a string
inside a loop and check for zero is like using a using a
truck for moving a pice of paper.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Wed Sep 09 1998 - 11:39:56 BST