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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to All   
   Re: And so? (VMS/XDE)   
   12 Nov 25 21:02:39   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:54:13 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 11/11/2025 10:56 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> No mainframe can match that.   
   >   
   > Of course mainframes can match that.   
      
   Nobody can afford to buy enough mainframes to match that.   
      
   > IBM mainframes use OS clustering (like VMS) called   
   > SysPlex.   
      
   Do either of those scale to 460,000 nodes?   
      
   No, they don’t.   
      
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