> Although I don't think the pricing model is the culprit necessarily, companies are willing to pay a lot for the clouds too. yes, but that's a lot of small, c

> Although I don't think the pricing model is the culprit necessarily, companies are willing to pay a lot for the clouds too. yes, but that's a lot of small, cheap bits all put together. the minimum required to get going on the cloud is $0. with a mainframe, there is a minimum amount of hardware required and that amount of hardware costs 6-7 figures, USD$. > new cache architecture on z16, where many processors can share their L2 caches to have a single coherent cache. as a PC person my entire career, that is a mind-blowing thing to read. the interconnections required to make that perform well enough to be useful must be insane. I WANNA PLAY, DAMMIT lol