[HN Gopher] Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started Its Ow...
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       Has Mainframe Computing Inadvertently Started Its Own Culture War?
        
       Author : omnibrain
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-05-24 20:46 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | mikewarot wrote:
       | Mainframes are fast because each given "run time" (aka VM) has a
       | fixed set of resources (aka Capabilities). Unlike the PC world,
       | the default access is NO to any other files, etc.
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       | We in the PC world keep reinventing our terms, the Mainframe
       | folks just keep using the ones settled on decades ago.
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       | You can run a VAX 11/780 in an Emulator, the same is true of many
       | older Mainframes.
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       | There's nothing magic about them, they're just optimized for
       | throughput, in a very specific context.
        
       | quantified wrote:
       | I'm not sure "started" is the right word. To the degree it's
       | "war", seems like the minor escalations have been regular ever
       | since the VAX was released.
        
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