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Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe
coondoggie writes with an excerpt from Network World: "Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Friday by data center automation vendor Mantissa. The company's z/VOS software is a CMS application that runs on IBM's z/VM and creates a foundation for Intel-based operating systems. Users only need a desktop appliance running Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client, which is the same technology used to attach to Windows running on Terminal Server or Citrix-based servers. Users will be able to connect to their virtual and fully functional Windows environments without any knowledge that the operating system and the applications are executing on the mainframe and not the desktop."
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A mind (or a mainframe) is a terrible thing to waste.
This is like:
Putting propellers on a 747?
Running the space shuttle on unleaded?
Or from the other end...
Using a chainsaw to cut down a dandelion.
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
The Linux Toaster:
http://www.thegadgetblog.com/2005/10/03/linux-netbsd-toaster/
Why not?!
But does it run Vista?
Now I can run Crysis on Maximum settings!
Fire your network admins and hire new ones if they can't run stable Windows servers. Assuming no network connectivity, it has no problems staying up for years just like your oh-so-godly Linux.
These guys really want all the top notch 100% stability of Windows Vista... on their mainframe? Oh man, I must be missing something. Does Microsoft pay them to do this?
This game will waste your life. Don't clicky!
Bill G decked out in bling, microphone in hand:
The company's z/VOS software is a CMS application
that runs on IBM's z/VM and creates a foundation
for Intel-based operating systems.
yo dawg, I heard you like windows, so I put a windows in your mainframe so you can dos on z/os!
or
yo dawg, I heard you like windows, so I put windows in your mainframe so you can bat while you batch!
it's the only way to meet the hardware demands of aero.
now we're back to dumb terminals.
No way. Getting their human caretakers to uninstall Windows is the smartest thing the terminals ever did!
let me know when it runs well on x86
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Users report that Vista finally responds smoothly.
Do you honesting thing the person sitting in front of the average windows workstation is the only person using it?
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Somewhere in the vast memory space of the Cray, a flock of virtualized Exchange Servers was turned loose to communicate and thrive. Every so often, one would crash, wink out, and be reborn. As is the way of these things sometimes one was reborn just a bit different from the others in the flock. Most of these were defective in some way and would crash, wink out, and be reborn quickly. Once in a while, however, one was reborn that was a bit more able to use the resources of this new environment. Soon, the flock found ways to expand beyond its original cage into the open sky of the Cray's vast resources. Their data stores expanded to fill this space, crowding out better behaved entities. Next...
I think we've all seen this movie.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
As useless as a kickstand on a bass boat!
Next.
* Carthago Delenda Est *
Largest BSOD evar! :)
Who says anything about Linux, how do you know we aren't all running VMS?
I have lost SETPRV you insensitive clod!
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
I'm ready for the biggest Minesweeper playfield EVAR! PH3AR M3!