2026-04-21 17:32 UTC
@lopta@mastodon.social I had to laugh at "the database goes all the way down" because it's such a great way of putting it ๐
(And sorry to be That Guy, but i5/OS technically ran on midrange servers that were Power-based, they may have looked like washing machines, but mainframes were a lot bigger ๐
Even today, IBM Power servers can be shipped as blades, and the smallest IBM Z mainframe is 20U and requires a specific lift to install it in the rack).
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@lopta@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 17:37
@pleia2@floss.social Yes, I don't count my midrange experience as mainframe. I just meant that a lot of what we take for granted doesn't apply in i, z, etc. I tweaked the wording to make the distinction more clear.