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A tribute video to a long lived humble 280R server:
I miss working on seriously stable Sun and Data General Aviion systems. Only thing better than them was a Vax running VMS, though I never did true big iron.
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Randall Gross Fri, Mar 15, 2013 11:50:10am |
The old Tandem Himalaya non stop was pretty great too.
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Cap'n Magic Fri, Mar 15, 2013 8:51:52pm |
So are IBM zEnterprise boxen-z/OS, Spec 1170 support, z/VM hosting thousands of Linux instances, built-in cryptographic support, new instructions to support Java-today’s IBM Mainframe ain’t like your father’s System/370.
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sundude Fri, Mar 15, 2013 10:17:24pm |
Am torn between applauding the uptime and cringing at the kernel version.
(Full disclosure, I am a Sun now Oracle PSE/FSE. I do not speak for them, thank them for not speaking for me.)
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, Mar 16, 2013 2:36:47pm |
Heh. Yes, there is that. Whatever they had it doing, it was not exposed to the wild web…
Since the buyout, I stick to Ubuntu on x86 & NetBSD on the rest.
I think I need to go play with Simh for awhile & perhaps see if I can get RDB to install in VMS…
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