On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:02:41PM -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > David W Noon wrote: > [...] > >A lot of the old EDS mainframers were made redundant because HP felt the > > >mainframe was dead. The mainframe now helps to keep HPE alive. > > > > How's that? HPE NonStop isn't a mainframe. x86 servers aren't mainframes. I > don't understand.
Perhaps they mean VAX and Alpha-based computers - I believe those had been acquired from DEC via Compaq and they (HP) were supporting both VAXen and Alphas, at least before the split. I may be wrong, however, and I have no time to check my notes/sources. I wonder if it is still possible to get VAX VMS from them (whoever "them" may be nowadays, HPE?) - it was possible to do so, by paying some tens of bucks for membership in their hobbyist group. After that one could download iso and licences. I think that back in time, PDP-10 was being called a mainframe, too. Likewise, a computer running Multics probably deserves to be called a mainframe. But there are maybe two of them, globally? Plus some being run as emulators, even giving accounts to interested public (and same with public VAXen, there are/were few of them on the net, one could login as guest and/or apply for normal account). So, it was not only z, some time ago. BTW, would it count as a mainframe if I ran one inside emulator on PC? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
