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BE systems aren't a hypothetical future, they're here in the present, in production systems. Yes, they're not very common, but that only makes the edge-cases sh
by Retr0id 4y ago
BE systems aren't a hypothetical future, they're here in the present, in production systems. Yes, they're not very common, but that only makes the edge-cases sharper.
The overengineering argument would make sense for a specific implementation, but not for the format as a whole, IMHO.
- Const-me 4y agoIt’s not a database format, it’s an image format. They are typically used in conjunction with a graphical display capable of rendering these images. I don’t think many of these legacy BE systems have such a thing. AFAIK most of these systems are headless: supercomputers with Power10, networking equipment, old SPARC servers, etc.