[EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/18/06 2:13 AM >>> >The term "mainframe" has been around for some years. > >Remember "Tandem Non Stop?" Tandem's big selling-point was reliability >(fault tolerance) through redundancy. As best I can recall I went to a >presentation in the early 80s, when we had Amdahl 43xxs and IBM's >mainframes were 3080 series. I think we had some dodgy disk drives, but >otherwise reliability was fine. > >How do current big Suns, IBM pSeries & iSeries (does HP still have >something in this market) compare here?
FWIW, the "Tandem Non-Stop" has been rebranded several times and is now HP NonStop (see http://h20223.www2.hp.com/NonStopComputing/cache/76385-0-0-0-121.html). Dunno if its considered to be a "mainframe" or not. I'm fairly certain that both Visa and MasterCard use them for some of their online transaction processing, though I believe both have zSeries machines as well. Frank --- Frank Swarbrick Senior Developer/Analyst - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation - (303) 235-1403 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
