On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Neil Cherry wrote:
> 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.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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