Re: Inside an IBM z17

On Sat, 3 May 2025 19:46:55 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:

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

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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 ...

But they do still suffer the latencies from a platform optimized for batch
rather than interactive operation, don’t they.