In conversations with customers today, it’s generally z/OS running on IBM Z hardware. We could start adding in z/VM, TPF, … but z/OS, in my experience, is what industry folks mean when they say mainframe. Good luck trying to find a legal definition, too much nuance.
Sometimes analysts will lump SPARC and Power hardware architectures in with AIX and Solaris and call them mainframes but those uses tend to be niche. “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein > On Jul 31, 2023, at 3:03 PM, Jon Perryman <[email protected]> wrote: > > In my opinion the only difference between a z16 running z/OS and a Google > server is design philosophy and nothing more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
