{"id":126,"date":"2007-03-04T09:36:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-03-04T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T07:36:13","slug":"this-realy-shows-my-age-the-world-of-ibm-mainframes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/this-realy-shows-my-age-the-world-of-ibm-mainframes\/","title":{"rendered":"This realy shows my age &#8230; the world of IBM mainframes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an entry by <a href=\"http:\/\/ibmcorner.com\/\">Mark Cathcart<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/ibmcorner.com\/2007\/03\/03\/looking-back-unix-system-services-linux-et-al\/\">Looking back, Unix System Services, Linux et al<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I started my computing life on VM systems way way back, and the fact that I actually know all the acronyms and terms that Mark was using, say&#8217;s a lot. This trip down memory lane gave a very good insight into how IBM looked at Unix and then in the later years Linux on their big systems.&nbsp; I still do not know whether I totally agree or like with the i, x, p and z Series names for IBM&#8217;s hardware.&nbsp; I so much more liked it when it was called 360 Systems, 390&#8217;s, 9375&#8217;s etc and OS\/390 or MVS, VM etc.<\/p>\n<p>Every year I hear somebody say that the mainframe is dying but it just goes from strength to strength.&nbsp; When it comes to reliability, scalability and pure cost\/performance then nothing beats it &#8230; even if you throw a multi CPU clustered Intel or AMD machine at it.<\/p>\n<p>When looking at how IBM implement and innovate around Linux, I am confident that in years to come Linux will play an integral role in helping business in optimizing their computing requirements. As an Open Source and Linux supporter, I will use these solutions more and more in my dealings with my customers and clients.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I am so glad that the WIN32 API was never implemented and used in the IBM software stack.&nbsp; Just imagine the situation IBM might have been in today &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/VM\" rel=\"tag\">VM<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/OS\/390\" rel=\"tag\">OS\/390<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/UNIX\" rel=\"tag\">UNIX<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Linux\" rel=\"tag\">Linux<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/USS\" rel=\"tag\">USS<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/zSeries\" rel=\"tag\">zSeries<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ESA\" rel=\"tag\">ESA<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mainframe\" rel=\"tag\">mainframe<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/MVS\" rel=\"tag\">MVS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an entry by Mark Cathcart called Looking back, Unix System Services, Linux et al. I started my computing life on VM systems way way back, and the fact that I actually know all the acronyms and terms <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/this-realy-shows-my-age-the-world-of-ibm-mainframes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  This realy shows my age &#8230; the world of IBM mainframes<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-ibm","category-oss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}