[Nottingham] OT - developing skills on the mainframe

[Robert Davies]

On Monday 03 March 2003 18:52, you wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hmmm, I'd disagree with you there, I'd say mainframes are good with
> large chunks of non interactive data... they don't handle small chunks
> very well, i.e network packets, key strokes, that kinda thing.. I may be
> wrong, but that's what the two mainframe geeks on the ibm stand at the
> linux show told me... and they seem to know there s**t. So if you got
> lots of batch processing to do (like a bank for example) there the
> business..... hmmm, they use em in banks, maybe worth learning afterall
> for a 100% pay rise... :-))))

And you think web pages with forms and serving static content isn't old style 
'block mode' processing...

Rob