[Nottingham] OT - developing skills on the mainframe

[Robert Davies]

On Monday 03 March 2003 16:23, you wrote:

> I think running many virtual linux machines on a single Mainframe is a
> great Idea, maybe not super performance, but with all this activity in
> creating clustered linux enviroments , with standard clusering api's,
> should make mainframes a thing of the past.... (perhaps not today!)

Mainframes are good in applications where little CPU is required but great 
raw I/O bandwidth, a modern example is serving static webpages for a hosting 
company.

Rob