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   Message 21,152 of 21,759   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Scott Dorsey   
   Re: Inside an IBM z17   
   04 May 25 02:18:11   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 3 May 2025 19:46:55 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Sat, 3 May 2025 16:07:59 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> That's the cool thing... the way you manage it is by having thousands   
   >>> of users, each on their own linux box, sending short transactions to   
   >>> the big IBM machine.   
   >>   
   >> How wonderful. No doubt your user base are accustomed to thinking in   
   >> terms of “transactions” rather than point-and-click, are they ...   
   >   
   > The users never see that ...   
      
   But they do still suffer the latencies from a platform optimized for batch   
   rather than interactive operation, don’t they.   
      
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