What Are You Doing Right Now
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@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Just had a recruiter reach out to me about an OpenVMS job! Wow, I love VMS, but can't believe that it is still running anywhere. Haven't really used that since 1995.
Wow... dinosaur living on... Don't hear much about them much any more... although I still hear of people using AS-400s..
System I or whatever is still used for Datacenter processing of transactions. It uses a Reason cpu so not just anything can run on it. Though some linux kernals can.
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It's very similar to the old powerPC mac cpu's expect it's dual core and 64bit now days.
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Good morning people!
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Morning Joy!
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System i and System P used the REAL IBM Power CPU. The PowerPC was a low power, older model of the Power processors. Power are the world's fastest CPUs. They are insane. Power 8 is really amazing. The PowerPC was an anemic toy that used their architecture and rode their name for a while to try to claim to be fast. The PowerPC wasn't bad, but it was in no way an IBM Power other than being the same architecture.
The PowerPC was the Atom to the Power's Xeon.
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@g.jacobse said:
Wow... dinosaur living on... Don't hear much about them much any more... although I still hear of people using AS-400s..
No one uses AS/400s. They died out in the 1990s. People refer to System i as AS/400 for some reason still. It's been fifteen years. Those are still new.
OpenVMS is still available new on HP Integrity (Itanium) gear.
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@Joyfano said:
Good morning people!
GOod morning.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The PowerPC was the Atom to the Power's Xeon.
That low? I'd consider it more like a core i3. It wasn't that bad.
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Hey Joy
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@Joyfano said:
Good morning people!
Morning
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The PowerPC was the Atom to the Power's Xeon.
That low? I'd consider it more like a core i3. It wasn't that bad.
Yes, in a way. Because Power 8 is SO much higher end than a Xeon. Sure, the PowerPC G5, for example, was way better than an Atom. But the comparison isn't Atom to PowerPC. It's Atom to Xeon. The PowerPC G5 was less compared to the Power 6 (which was out at the time) than the current Atom is to the top end Xeon.
A single Power system today is considered a "bigger" server than a loaded top end DL580 G9 with quad Xeons.
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Hello to all!
Just drop by to say good morning!
I'm working on creating procedure on how to reformat/ check the CCTV/ other stuff that need to have documentation.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yes, in a way. Because Power 8 is SO much higher end than a Xeon.
I can agree with that. I've always like the Power cpu's better. Not many people seem to know much about it though.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I can agree with that. I've always like the Power cpu's better. Not many people seem to know much about it though.
Different circles, I suppose. Power processors are everywhere in my world. Sure a lot were PowerPC Macs, but in my day people were getting PowerPC systems for Linux, Amiga and other stuff. It was a very common processor.
And anyone working with System i, AIX or IBM z mainframes is on Power. Power is a very important architecture.
Plus a lot of RAID controllers are Power processors (little ones.) And several video game consoles like the GameCube, Wii and Wii U are Power still.
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Of course, I've worked at IBM actually making the System i, System p, System z and Gamecube systems, all of which were power then. I still have a PowerPC Mac too. Old though, a G4.
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Orvis Solely uses them (I think IBM just calls them Power Series now). in all there data centers. That's how I've messed with them.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Orvis Solely uses them (I think IBM just calls them Power Series now). in all there data centers. That's how I've messed with them.
Yes, the i and p lines (long ago the AS/400 and RS/6000 lines) were merged together. Now every Power Series box can run System i, AIX or Linux as you see fit. (The all run BSD too, but IBM doesn't recommend or support that.)
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
OMG, I hate Gmail!
The fact that they started even putting targeted ads in the mobile gmail app was the last straw for me. And they are trying to force the Google Inbox thing which I don't like to automate email thinking it knows what important to you. I like folders and rules, the inbox thing just makes me miss important stuff.
I'm actually to a point I can't read the email there because it is so poorly filtered. Gmail is definitely only useful for people not reading their mail. It's the most incompetent email interface I've ever encountered.
Ease up tiger. I still like it and I read my email there.
Granted, I don't send much.
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Clearly you've never used zzn.com. -
Failing to sleep with a migraine...
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My main file server shat itself on reboot (Friday afternoon emergency reboot) and I don't have an OS disk on hand... downloading ISO (Thanks Microsoft
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This is taking far too long for a Friday afternoon.
