OK, I guess it all depends on what you call a "mainframe". Certainly the
traditional definition is IBM S/360 family architecture, or maybe a
Burroughs or CDC. Wintel viruses aren't going to bother any of those
(their code won't run), but of course contaminated files/emails could be
passed on to other computers. You /could/ have large Wintel boxes or
clusters of boxes/blades that could be vulnerable, but I haven't
traditionally heard of those being referred to as "mainframes". Perhaps
they /will/ be known as "mainframes" some day -- what do you now call
large groups of small processors working together to more or less as a
single image? Is a "mainframe" just a large centralized computer center,
regardless of how big the boxes are?
On 7/30/2010 2:00 PM, 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!
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