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IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur Turns 40
theodp writes "According to an SFGate.com article, PCs were supposed to kill off the mainframe, but Big Blue's big boxes are still crunching numbers, posting sales of $4.2 billion in 2003. First unveiled on April 7, 1964, the IBM mainframe computer celebrates its 40th birthday this week with a sold-out party at the Computer History Museum." The SFGate article also reveals: "Doug Balog, an IBM vice president, noted that 70 percent of the world's data are still housed in mainframe computers."
But does it run linsux?
your mother makes goatse look tasty, and hog shit tossed on burning tires, smells better then your her.
Heh heh heh.....silly troll.....
AS400 .NE. mainframe.
System 390 .EQ. mainframe.
You going to have to try a lot harder than that.
According to an SFGate.com article, PCs were supposed to kill off the mainframe
OK, the guy who submitted the article and is responsible for this quote is clearly a moron, but are Hemos and Malda this stupid too?
How can anyone let something like this go?
What kind of idiots do we have here at Slashdot anyway?
New nadir for the nerd-zine.
IBM's Mainframe Dinosaur
Who's the moron? When they say 70% of the world's data...
Who's the moron then?
Maybe Hemos and Malda are the dinosaurs. Worthless geek class that's outlived its lack of usefulness.
Wow, when do us humble PC users get to lick your balls?
Not too long, Sun almost surpassed IBM in market capitalization. Most H-1B workers bragged that Sun (which readily hires large numbers of H-1B workers from Taiwan and India) would beat the pants off IBM (which generally refuses to hire H-1B workers).
Well, IBM won the server wars and proved itself to be the fine traditional American company that it is. Sun has had 11 straight quarters of losses and is headed the way of SGI.
What finally killed Sun was the UltraSPARC processor. It could not compete against Power4 by IBM or the SPARC64-V by Fujitsu. The UltraSPARC was largely built by H-1B workers. Mainly native workers built the Power4 and the SPARC64-V.