[geeks] Careeer shifting

[joshua d boyd]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:22:28AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> Sun doesn't make mainframes.  end of friggin sentence.  they neve have and they
> never will.  everyone else has dropped out of the mainframe market, and so IBM
> is currently the only manufacturer of mainframes anymore.

OK, the E10k has IO and partitioning, which is how I used to define a
mainframe as being different from a really large server.  So, what do I
use to define a mainframe now to people who are curious as to what the
diff is?

> a 'frame is really friggin hard to break.  an E10K is MUCH easier to break. as
> much as i love sun (i am a Sun Bigot after all) no-one does un-killable systems
> like IBM does.

The IBM mainframes at school reportedly go down if you sneeze wrong in the
building.  They are really, really, really old though.  Like maybe older
than the s/360 line.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd