lyonadmiral
Veteran Member
For those who might still work with the big iron, what do you say/think is the advantage of running mainframes/big iron today?
Thanks,
Daniel
Thanks,
Daniel
Near 100% availability and lowest cost virtual machines.
MFs today however are physically tiny relative to their ancestors.
For those who might still work with the big iron, what do you say/think is the advantage of running mainframes/big iron today?
Thanks,
Daniel
The Rhode Island Computer Museum received an IBM S/390 donation a few weeks ago.
http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/ibm-system390
There is no way you could do this kind of step-by-step transition on anything but a mainframe.
I remember getting a tour of the new CDC Cyber 205 at Colorado State University sometime in the late 70's/early 80's. Now that was what I'd call a mainframe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_Cyber#Cyber_200_series
I always figured the weather was a reason there was so much hi-tech located in the twin cities. Who wants to brave traffic at 20 below when you can stay at work in a nice heated building anyway? They could have piped some of that heat to Cedar Square, one of my memories of those apartments was they were not always warm in the winter.During the OPEC oil embargo, the machine room at ADL was probably the warmest place in the Twin Cities. I just got a good book and snuggled up between the SBUs.
... That was different--liquid nitrogen goodness.
Good times.
What, no fluorinert?
No, that was Seymour's thing--expensive stuff too. The liquid nitrogen was Neil Lincoln's experiment. Amazingly, it worked well wnough to put a few machines into production....