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Specifically they run IBM zTPF on their mainframes, which is also used by airlines. Some installations have uptimes measured in decades. https://www.ibm.com/it
by andrewg 7y ago
Specifically they run IBM zTPF on their mainframes, which is also used by airlines. Some installations have uptimes measured in decades.
https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/transaction-processing-facility https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/transaction-processi...
- wereHamster 7y agoIt's rarely the hardware that fails, it's more often due to software. So I wonder what the software that's running on mainframes does differently than the software that's written for ordinary computers.
- southerndrift 7y agoMay it's not what it does but that it is written in COBOL?
- Terretta 7y ago> So I wonder what the software that's running on mainframes does differently than the software that's written for ordinary computers. Not change.