Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >> And your current desktop PC's operating system and all its application >> software are extremely reliable and robust with 20 percent of all code >> developed to keep the other 80 percent running forever, it can handle >> thousands of transactions per second, and not have to be unexpectedly >> rebooted for how many years?
>Why do you ask? Did I write it or even suggest? Good question. On mainframes you get an operating system with applications certified to work 100%. On your PC/laptop/etc, you are at the mercy of the hardware vendor, operating system vendor and the mix of application vendors. For example, on a laptop with Windoze 7 64-bit, the Adobe Flash is not working 100% with IE10, but with Firefox 29.0.1. [1] >I'm just talking about rapid, exponential growth of hardware resources like >memory, HDD, or CPU. It's quite obvious that my dektop PC performs less important things than i.e. mainframe working for bank or airlines 30 years ago. Despite the mainframes I just mentioned were significantly smaller in terms of memory, CPU speed, etc. Indeed. See my other post. Your PC/Laptop/tablet are doing work only for you and your hobbies. Vendors are investing and making money on your gaming needs. Go figure. Large scale vendors (IBM for example) will not make things to satisfy your gaming needs. They need to sell very robust and safe systems handling gazillion transactions daily with the minimum IPL as possible. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - My Vodacom USB quadcard is not working on Win7, but on WinXP. My MTN USB quadcard is working on all machines. Problem was traced with BIOS setting and Win7 handling of that settings on my laptop. Weird. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
