No, seriously, you're wrong. No mainframes run Windows. Period. Full-stop.
Microsoft Windows is currently available for the Intel/AMD x86 Platform. Once
up a time, a long time ago, it was also available for the Motorola PowerPC
platform.
*Neither* of those two platforms even remotely resembles the architecture of a
mainframe.
For instance, here's all the operating systems you can run on IBM's zSeries
mainframe architecture:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/index.html
note that there's no Windows there. There *is* a Linux there, because IBM has
spent gazillions of dollars ensuring that their ultra-high-end architecture is
supported by the kernel. (I forgot about that in my last message).
But, no, there is no Windows for mainframes.
D
On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Mark Wallace wrote:
> Some main frames do run Windows. MSN, MSNBC, Hotmail, Sympatico of
> Canada, run a Windows product. But Microsoft hasn't had much luck
> selling their mainframe software to non-microsoft sites. It's
> apparently buggier than Linux.
>
> Would like the phone numbers of the victims in question?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 14:56 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 02:00:19PM -0400, Mark Wallace wrote:
>>> Buying Microsoft won't get you fired until you get a virus into your
>>> mainframe. My nephew runs the computer systems for a university and
>>> they had a lot of data wiped out and oh, brother!
>>
>> Care to try again?
>>
>> Mainframes don't run windows.
>>
>> They also don't run intel processors.
>>
>> There is no virus which windows could "get onto a mainframe".
>>
>> -m
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