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soulofmischiefyesterday at 6:36 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm not talking about an IBM mainframe. The definition Google gives me for mainframe is `a large high-speed computer, especially one supporting numerous workstations or peripherals`, which is exactly what my machine is.


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nineteen999yesterday at 8:12 AM

Yeah nah. Mainframes have:

  * hot-swap power & CPUs
  * RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability)
  * vendor SLAs
  * fault containment
  * designed uptime vs achieved uptime
If you can buy replacement parts on eBay and reboot to fix problems, it’s not a mainframe.
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