Re: Inside an IBM z17

Dan Espen  <dan1espen@gmail.com> wrote:

Try connecting thousands of users to a single linux box.  You'll soon see the
utility of block mode terminals.

That's the cool thing... the way you manage it is by having thousands
of users, each on their own linux box, sending short transactions to
the big IBM machine.  No more terminal performance bottlenecks, and no
more worries about operations being more or less atomic.  It solves both
ends of the problem at the same time.
--scott
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