I've been told by some sales folks not to use the M-word when talking
about LinuxONE. I feel like HAL keeping secrets from the crew of
Discovery One. No relation to Linux One - or is there?
On 8/1/2023 12:44 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Jon Perryman wrote:
The last Fujitsu mainframe is scheduled for 2030 and dropping all
support by 2035. Honeywell Bull GCOS and Unisys OS 2200 and MCP are
now x86 based. Are these mainframes or are they PCs?
PCframes? mainCs? It is hard to define rigorously, but as someone else quoted SCOTUS,
"I know it when I see it".
In common use, I'd argue (not very vociferously, I admit) that only IBM
machines-and maybe Fujitsus-are really mainframes: The others are just very
large computers. But this may be due entirely by the fact that I have to
explain to sales reps on a regular basis that our z/OS support means IBM
machines, not Unisys or whatever!
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