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To: djf

Yep, mainframes DO have their plusses....

I, however, have a firewall that hasn't been rebooted since it was installed two years ago. (HP-UX on a L-class, running Checkpoint FW-1). I did have to clear out some old logs a few months ago, before the filesystem choked.


12 posted on 11/05/2004 10:02:53 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: clee1

MVS/OS390/z/OS was designed from the very beginning to be a multi-user multi-tasking environment.

MVS has the BEST task controller and dispatcher of any operating system in the world, zero wait states, 5 bubble levels of task abend control (and that's not counting the hardware error controls).

My machine has one gig of CS, 400 gig of disk, and comfortably supports over 100 concurrent users.

And it only runs at about 40 megahertz. The really big ones run at 40,000 megahertz.


14 posted on 11/05/2004 10:24:44 PM PST by djf
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