Re: Inside an IBM z17

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 3 May 2025 16:07:59 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
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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.

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How wonderful. No doubt your user base are accustomed to thinking in terms
of “transactions” rather than point-and-click, are they ...

The users never see that, any more than they see the underlying sql
operations when they are using a directly-attached database.  This is
the whole beauty of computers, that you can abstract layers.
--scott
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