Posts by docteurvez

Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

It's kind of ironic in the end.

The Mainframe was there decades ago, with the multi-tasking, multi-users functionality and probably the best Hypervisor ever coded.

And even now, with the powerful Mainframe cpu IBM can manufactures, if I try to code something that will try to sneek out of my area, MVS will "spit" me out with an abend-code 0C4, which means : "Sorry buddy, you are not authorized to read this region".

Intel should have learned from the Big Iron...

Missed opportunity bingo: IBM's wasted years and the $92bn cash splurge

Re: Died when

Exactly. When then sold this division, they went back in 1980, just before the PCs, when they only have the Mainframe and the Mini (AS/400) business.

Since this business is also slowly fading away, what will be left of IBM ?

IBM missed everything 20 years ago...

IBM is the master of the virtualization for more than 50 years (with it's mainframe of course), and he could have been the master of the PCs virtualization too, only if the management had believed in the PC.

At the time of OS/2, the Mainframe division was so afraid that the PC would wipe out their business, they killed the future of this OS and the PC division, with all the bad decisions and choices IBM made.

If only they had a vision, IBM would have ruled the world completely with their Hypervisor.

I'm not saying it would be a good thing, but it would have been possible.

They are a big Dinosaur (always been) and they will eventually be slowly replaced...