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An Ode To “Hacking Into The Mainframe”

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 1 year 1 month 1 week ago

The only thing we really know about mainframes is that they're somehow always under attack. Enjoy this supercut of tech's most reliable film cliche. (BuzzFeed)

7 Comments

Like "The Cloud" only more reliable.

Do mainframes exist any more? Or are server farms a similar thing?

Upvote for Goldeneye

ant

jokingly says...

VS is running on a mainframe.

Do mainframes exist any more? Or are server farms a similar thing?

They still exist, and have slotted fairly comfortably into a web enabled role... it turns out that batch mode terminals and web pages are rather similar, and as a result it's only a few years since IBM sold a record number of mainframes in one year.

Although it's worth taking this with a grain of salt the size of Uluru, IBM did claim to have shipped the most mainframe processing capacity ever per quarter in 4th quarter of 2012. Exactly how they calculate this is not entirely clear to me, but either way they are still selling a lot of kit and it doesn't seem to be slowing down.

Do mainframes exist any more? Or are server farms a similar thing?

Mainframe - one of those words that when repeated over and over again just loses all meaning!

KrazyKat42 says...

I could dance to that. Does that make me a geek?

Wait don't answer that.

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