From: noemail@basdxcqvbe.com   
      
   On Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:09:44 GMT   
   scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:   
      
   > And third, because nobody is interested in single-user,   
   > single-application operating environments for any form of real   
   > production work.   
   >   
      
   You could be talking about mainframes here or you could be talking   
   about servers.  Your statement is true for one and false for the other.   
      
   I agree that some companies use multi-user, multi-tasking,   
   fault-tolerant servers for heavy data processing and real-time online   
   transaction processing (RT OLTP), e.g., Stratus servers running Windows   
   Server w/ Hyper-V and VMware vSphere.  (True for servers)   
      
   But, the paradigm of "Big Iron" multi-user IBM or Unix corporate   
   mainframe ended about twenty some years ago ...  (False for mainframes)   
   The initial transition from fault-tolerant mainframes (Big Iron) to   
   clusters of high-availability Linux servers within the brokerage   
   industry started around 2002.  (I know this for a fact because the   
   brokerage I where I worked at the time assigned me alone to do a   
   project where I was dealing directly with another brokerage whose   
   entire programming department of 200+ people was struggling to   
   implement a solution on their new Linux server cluster.)   
      
   Also, your belief in multi-user and multi-tasking also nullifies the   
   decades use of Windows on corporate desktops.  Windows is a   
   "single-user, single-application operating environment" used for "real   
   production work".  Perhaps, this is just not at the scale which you   
   didn't mention or specify, but simply referred to as "real production   
   work".   
      
      
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