Wow, I haven’t worked on a mainframe for ten years now, feels like 100.
Meanwhile, Steve Chen (architect of many Cray systems)continues his work for the Chinese, developing their supercomputers.
This doesn’t surprise me. Client servers have been around for decades but today’s microsoft machines lack the sophistication of the mainframe client server class. Bill Gates answer? saturated the market with important, but hacker intrusive, often not sophisticated barefoot pilgrim software that simply can’t cut the mustard. Mainframe software engineers are in a class by themselves who fully understand the workings and sophistication of the architecture.