[email protected] (zMan) writes: > Heck, your PHONE has more memory, storage, and cores than most mainframes > in the last century. And certainly more memory than existed on the PLANET > when most of us started in this business...
20yrs ago we were brought into the largest airline res system to look at the 10 impossible things that they couldn't do ... they had dozen or so largest mainframes dedicated to the task. turns out the paradigm was left over from the 60s when computer resources were radically different ... and as result had to make numerous trade-offs (which hadn't changed in 30yrs). I realized that I could completely change the paradigm, make it run several times faster, handle all requests for every passenger & airline in the world and also do all ten impossible things ... I came back with the new implementation (& new paradigm that did everything) 2months later. turns out ten rs6000/580s would handle the whole world ... ten yrs later a cellphone chip had more processing power then those ten 580s. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
