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Services and server seller Unisys felt the pinch in revenues in the first quarter thanks to divestitures of business units and a decline in its services revenues, which has widened its losses. Revenues fell by 6.9 per cent in Q1, to $998.3m, but a rebounding ClearPath mainframe market helped quadruple operating profits to $58. …

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    Mainframes Of The Future

    Unisys as the "little guy" demonstrates how the future will look like: x86 Xeon Processors running Enterprise Workloads.

    Eventually even IBM will be forced to use that strategy, as it simply will not be economically feasible to create a S/390 CPU which is competitive with x86.

    IBM itself had experimental binary code translation systems running S/370/390 workloads on other instruction sets (I think it was a RISC CPU) in their labs. DEC, HP and others managed to do the same very successfully (in technical terms).

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