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  • I know right!

    I think this is another case where even the engineers got sold into the marketing

    Because they heard three decades ago that this was the fastest best technology, and IBM sold it to them

    … The reality is, these technologies nobody uses for anything new and there’s a reason why. They are just too ancient and stagnating

    Plus, other technologies are open and you can see how much more innovation happens when you allow that. Mainframe never had that and that’s why it sat around

  • I do

    I mean slow in terms of innovation, which they stagnate on

    But also performance actually

    Their TCP\IP stack is one such consequence. It doesn’t have any of the massive changes that happened in the last few decades that have optimized performance

    Open source stacks picked those up immediately. Windows, and other older platforms still use a much slower and more poorly designed stack

    That’s one such example. Plenty of others

    It’s not that they can’t solve problems. They can.

    Steam engines can solve everything too. But they are not the best at every task and these days it’s hard to find anything that couldn’t be beaten otherwise

    Mostly these systems ONLY exist because of legacy

    It is why none of the big compute players have touched any of that in decades. Because it is dead technology and a dead end

  • I think this is just old style thinking

    Cloud and modern technologies are far superior. There is a reason why the fastest most demanding data centers do NOT use any of that old technology

    Also, “continuous development since they were created” is pretty much nonsense . It’s technology, it’s all always been in continuous development

    Mainframe and other technologies have stagnated for the last several decades. They haven’t developed much. IBM is the main one in the game and their main strategy is vendor lock in. Not innovation, and definitely not them updating and keeping up with the times

    Even their TCP\IP network stack is decades behind other technologies.

    It’s all proprietary so it’s less efficient, less innovative, less secure, too

  • Lmao someone would be very incompetent to actually propose the idea to create a mainframe system to do this

    It would be so stupid , it would be ancient slow and hard to maintain

    Everything this century that’s new is cloud, distributed, HA, real time, event driven, and fast low latency

    Mainframe only has some of those features, plus really ancient legacy and other stuff that makes it not perform as well in certain areas