Hmmm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mainframe

That's entirely different from what I thought it was.

Neverrrrrr Minnnnnnndddd

-soup

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:23 PM, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Open Mainframe?  News to me.
>
> Mainframes require three criteria:
>
> 1) Maximum *reliable* single-thread performance (see the "Linux on S/390"
> redbook "Appendix A" for how reliability is tricked out);
> 2) Maximum I/O throughput; and
> 3) Maximum I/O connectivity.
>
> Admittedly, criterion 3 is kind of undercut by SAN technology.
>
> Additionally, the instruction set need not mimic the zSeries to be a
> mainframe.  We already know that handling memory access faults in IBM's SS
> instructions for virtual machine functionality that much harder to pull
> off...
>
> Now you've all just added to my reading list.
>
> (laughs maniacally)
>
> "You are the MS-DOS of Evil...   Only 640K... Not EVIL Enough!"
>
> -soup
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Christer Solskogen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen that been discussed here. Are any of you guys involved
>> somehow?
>>
>> --
>> chs
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MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows
"It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors;
Regardless
 of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because,
 somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me

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