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Oh no.

I know right!

I think this is another case where even the engineers got sold into the marketing

Because they heard three decades ago that this was the fastest best technology, and IBM sold it to them

... The reality is, these technologies nobody uses for anything new and there's a reason why. They are just too ancient and stagnating

Plus, other technologies are open and you can see how much more innovation happens when you allow that. Mainframe never had that and that's why it sat around

I do

I mean slow in terms of innovation, which they stagnate on

But also performance actually

Their TCP\IP stack is one such consequence. It doesn't have any of the massive changes that happened in the last few decades that have optimized performance

Open source stacks picked those up immediately. Windows, and other older platforms still use a much slower and more poorly designed stack

That's one such example. Plenty of others

It's not that they can't solve problems. They can.

Steam engines can solve everything too. But they are not the best at every task and these days it's hard to find anything that couldn't be beaten otherwise

Mostly these systems ONLY exist because of legacy

It is why none of the big compute players have touched any of that in decades. Because it is dead technology and a dead end

Dude. They are technologies

You can make your own damn cloud if you want to. I think you missed the point entirely

I think this is just old style thinking

Cloud and modern technologies are far superior. There is a reason why the fastest most demanding data centers do NOT use any of that old technology

Also, "continuous development since they were created" is pretty much nonsense . It's technology, it's all always been in continuous development

Mainframe and other technologies have stagnated for the last several decades. They haven't developed much. IBM is the main one in the game and their main strategy is vendor lock in. Not innovation, and definitely not them updating and keeping up with the times

Even their TCP\IP network stack is decades behind other technologies.

It's all proprietary so it's less efficient, less innovative, less secure, too

Lmao someone would be very incompetent to actually propose the idea to create a mainframe system to do this

It would be so stupid , it would be ancient slow and hard to maintain

Everything this century that's new is cloud, distributed, HA, real time, event driven, and fast low latency

Mainframe only has some of those features, plus really ancient legacy and other stuff that makes it not perform as well in certain areas

Chlorinated chicken..?

Is that as mouth-watering as it sounds?

It's also chaos.

He's making it so nobody can even trust their own country or economy.

You just have to listen and trust him and Trump will make it right ..