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The flip side of that is that commodity hardware runs commodity software. It’s entirely possible to run a very large company without having any bespoke software
by dghlsakjg 4y ago
The flip side of that is that commodity hardware runs commodity software. It’s entirely possible to run a very large company without having any bespoke software.
Mainframes on the other hand or more likely than not to have software that only runs on a handful of machines at most.
So number of machines is not a good proxy for amount of software written.
On the other hand I’ve never touched a mainframe so it’s all speculation…
- warrenm 4y ago>It’s entirely possible to run a very large company without having any bespoke software. I find that claim remarkably improbable - the overwhelming majority of all code written is for in-house business tasks
- warrenm 4y ago>So number of machines is not a good proxy for amount of software written. It is a good proxy for the relative need of developers, however - with billions of x86 devices out there vs max a couple-few million mainframes...the scale of need is just wildly different