[geeks] Careeer shifting

[Ken Hansen]

How good are the Mainframe admins at your school? The Programmers? The
operators?

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua d boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [geeks] Careeer shifting


> 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
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