Comment Re:No need to register... (Score 1) 701
>> Nobody chooses a career in programming so they can work with mainframes that were built before they were even born
This illustates a very common misconception about mainframes. We're not talking old machines - just machines whose design roots go back a long way.
This comment is as silly as someone seeing an old 8086 running DOS and concluding that they don't want to work on PCs because they're so old.
In many ways, they kind of issues and problems that you currently see in the PC world, as applications become larger and PCs start running "enterprise" workloads, are exactly the same issues that mainframers have been dealing with for 30 years. I see a lot of wheels being reinvented ...
This illustates a very common misconception about mainframes. We're not talking old machines - just machines whose design roots go back a long way.
This comment is as silly as someone seeing an old 8086 running DOS and concluding that they don't want to work on PCs because they're so old.
In many ways, they kind of issues and problems that you currently see in the PC world, as applications become larger and PCs start running "enterprise" workloads, are exactly the same issues that mainframers have been dealing with for 30 years. I see a lot of wheels being reinvented
