undefined | Better HN

0 pointsakireu4y ago0 comments

It's 2022 and we're about to rediscover something we know for 40 years already: mainframes are freaking expensive.

0 comments

It's 2022 and we're about to rediscover something we know for 40 years already: mainframes have freaking performance.

nix234y ago

>mainframes have freaking performance

Yes and no, really depends for what workloads. But freaking reliability that's for sure.

reliability + security. performance is poor they were designed for batch.

nix234y ago

You misread something, it's 2022 and we discover that mainframes can be cheaper then a AWS-cloud-machine-park ;)

I thought AWS was the mainframe in the parent comment?!

nix234y ago

Please educate yourself what a mainframe is.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

It's 2022 and we're about to rediscover something we know for 40 years already: mainframes have freaking performance.

nix234y ago

>mainframes have freaking performance

Yes and no, really depends for what workloads. But freaking reliability that's for sure.

reliability + security. performance is poor they were designed for batch.

nix234y ago

You misread something, it's 2022 and we discover that mainframes can be cheaper then a AWS-cloud-machine-park ;)

I thought AWS was the mainframe in the parent comment?!

nix234y ago

Please educate yourself what a mainframe is.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse