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		PaulHoule 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We were wrong about GPUs This mainframe system from the 1990s was so much simpler https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=sysplex-parall... even if it wasn't as scalable as Kube. One the other hand, a cluster of 32 CMOS mainframe could handle any commercial computing job that people were doing in the 1990s.

closewith 6 months ago | [–]

Seems the causality is going the wrong direction there. Commercial jobs were limited by mainframe constraints, so that's where job sizes topped out.

sanderjd 6 months ago | [–]

It's not simple but it's not opaque.

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