Dave Jones wrote:
http://blogs.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2006/07/not_your_dads_m.html#more
While z/VM isn't explicitly mentioned in the blog entry, I do suspect that
the Linux images the gamers are using are VM hosted. Who was it that first
ran StarTrek on VM or TSO? I guess they were really ahead of their time. :-)
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#3 Not Your Dad's Mainframe:
Little Iron
... part II:
note that vm/4341 saw big explosion in use ... small to medium size
customers as well as leading edge use for things like departmental
computers ... with some companies ordering them in quantities of 100s.
there was a corresponding explosion internally in vm/4341s which helped
contribute to there being nearly 1000 nodes on the internal network
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet
on 1/1/83 ... which was the great switch-over of the arpanet to
internetworking protocol.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet
at that point there was supposedly something like 100 networking IMPs
and close to 255 nodes ... however possibly half of those "nodes" may
have been terminal server IMPs (aka telecommunication control unit). a
couple posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#40 Arpa address
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006k.html#42 Arpa address
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#29 Mainframe Linux Mythbusting
and for really little iron ... recent post mentioning xt/370
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006m.html#56 DCSS
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