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They used to be commonly programmed very close to the metal. The assembly languages for the System 360 and 370 machines (40 - 50 years ago) were well suited to

They used to be commonly programmed very close to the metal. The assembly languages for the System 360 and 370 machines (40 - 50 years ago) were well suited to processing records of data. These days, I believe using these as hypervisors to hundreds of Linux VMs is more common. IBM has their own Java implementation, but I don't know what it's adoption is like in the mainframe industry.

Nerdfest 14y ago
hey actually sell special processors that run Java for 'Free'. Most people don't know that IBM charges you for 'MIPS'. They actually charge you for using your computer. They have some other specialized processors as well ... all are very expensive.
- spitfire 14y ago
  I remember looking it up a while ago, for a processor to "run" Linux cost $28K at the time. Not at all sure how many VM's you cuould support there.
  - noselasd 14y ago
    The previous generation could run up to 50000 VMs, I'd wager the new system announced here could handle a lot more.
    - Nerdfest 14y ago
      They will only 'run' that number if they're not actually doing anything.
  - zmonkeyz 14y ago
    It makes for a cheap way to run Oracle since they charge per core.