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Stuck on ground in plane at ORD, just got an update that the "mainframes" are starting to come back online. EDIT: We're now about to take off.
by mactyler 10y ago
Stuck on ground in plane at ORD, just got an update that the "mainframes" are starting to come back online.
EDIT: We're now about to take off.
- cydonian_monk 10y agoWhile in this case they probably are actual mainframes, at my firm we use the term to refer to the VMs running in tiny boxes that replaced what once were also mainframes. Sometimes the language outlives the hardware.
- hindsightbias 10y agoUh, they aren't using mainframes. 10:1, Linux fail.
- pc86 10y agoThey most certainly are. The primary systems running all the major US airlines are all mainframe at least in part.