Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe 422
coondoggie writes with an excerpt from Network World: "Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Friday by data center automation vendor Mantissa. The company's z/VOS software is a CMS application that runs on IBM's z/VM and creates a foundation for Intel-based operating systems. Users only need a desktop appliance running Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client, which is the same technology used to attach to Windows running on Terminal Server or Citrix-based servers. Users will be able to connect to their virtual and fully functional Windows environments without any knowledge that the operating system and the applications are executing on the mainframe and not the desktop."
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Norton AntiVirus, Mainframe Edition!
Now on sale for $49,950, first year of virus definitons free!
Sigh... (Score:5, Funny)
Let the analogies commence (Score:5, Funny)
This is like:
Putting propellers on a 747?
Running the space shuttle on unleaded?
Or from the other end...
Using a chainsaw to cut down a dandelion.
Re:WHY???? (Score:3, Funny)
The Linux Toaster:
http://www.thegadgetblog.com/2005/10/03/linux-netbsd-toaster/ [thegadgetblog.com]
Why not?!
But ... (Score:1, Funny)
But does it run Vista?
Finally (Score:2, Funny)
Now I can run Crysis on Maximum settings!
Re:But ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let the analogies commence (Score:5, Funny)
It's like creating a world-spanning network with submarine cables, microwave links, fiber-optic everything, satellite dishes, protocols out the wazoo, billions of lines of code and huge multinational telecommunications and consulting companies to service and support it, employing tens of millions in highly skilled work...just to look at some big titties. http://images.google.com/images?q=bigtitties&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_en___US233&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi [google.com]
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Guaranteed to take up 90% of cycles and 75% of RAM, regardless of mainframe resources. Slow and buggy, get the new version with VirtualDriveLightAlwaysOnPlus, which gives the user the feel of working on a real Windows workstation with NortonAV installed.
Re:Most common use of virtualization (Score:4, Funny)
Stability? Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm gonna need that. Imagine watching porn on a mainframe? I bet I could have 60,000 videos running simultaneously.
Acronym Rap (Score:4, Funny)
Bill G decked out in bling, microphone in hand:
The company's z/VOS software is a CMS application
that runs on IBM's z/VM and creates a foundation
for Intel-based operating systems.
xzibit FTW (Score:1, Funny)
yo dawg, I heard you like windows, so I put a windows in your mainframe so you can dos on z/os!
or
yo dawg, I heard you like windows, so I put windows in your mainframe so you can bat while you batch!
Re:I think I speak for all of us... (Score:5, Funny)
it's the only way to meet the hardware demands of aero.
Re:kinda funny (Score:5, Funny)
now we're back to dumb terminals.
No way. Getting their human caretakers to uninstall Windows is the smartest thing the terminals ever did!
Re:Wasn't that done using Linux a decade ago? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
The Horror... (Score:5, Funny)
Somewhere in the vast memory space of the Cray, a flock of virtualized Exchange Servers was turned loose to communicate and thrive. Every so often, one would crash, wink out, and be reborn. As is the way of these things sometimes one was reborn just a bit different from the others in the flock. Most of these were defective in some way and would crash, wink out, and be reborn quickly. Once in a while, however, one was reborn that was a bit more able to use the resources of this new environment. Soon, the flock found ways to expand beyond its original cage into the open sky of the Cray's vast resources. Their data stores expanded to fill this space, crowding out better behaved entities. Next...
I think we've all seen this movie.
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Guaranteed to take up 90% of cycles and 75% of RAM
Hey as long as it keeps those pesky kids from Hackers out. For some reason my 3 char password just isn't enough anymore.
To me, Windows on a mainframe is: (Score:3, Funny)
As useless as a kickstand on a bass boat!
Next.
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
For some reason my 3 char password just isn't enough anymore.
Would that be "CTRL+ALT+DEL"?
crash (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stability? Hah! (Score:2, Funny)
These guys really want all the top notch 100% stability of Windows Vista... on their mainframe?
Very good point.
On the other hand, a fully configured z/OS mainframe might be able to handle many instances of Vista. Dozens, even.
Re:Most common use of virtualization (Score:3, Funny)
Who says anything about Linux, how do you know we aren't all running VMS?
I have lost SETPRV you insensitive clod!
awww, yeah! (Score:4, Funny)
I'm ready for the biggest Minesweeper playfield EVAR! PH3AR M3!
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
I'm gonna need that. Imagine watching porn on a mainframe? I bet I could have 60,000 videos running simultaneously.
Yeah, but they'd be coming out on the line printer.
Re:In other other news... (Score:5, Funny)
bad news. Mainframe != speed.
More apropriate would be to say that Vista crashes more predictably and across all mirrored hardware CPU's at the same time.
Re:Stability? Hah! (Score:5, Funny)
This is Vista we're talking about.
I'd put the number at around 4. Five if you decide to get really spendy with the mainframe.
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, the Microsoft licensing is what you are worried about? In this scenario, I'd have a shotgun in my office waiting for Big Blue or Computer Associates to come busting through. This is a mainframe dude, where "insert shaft/no lube" licensing models are standard procedure.
Re:Let the analogies commence (Score:3, Funny)
When I first learned English in the 19th century, run-on sentences were not the terrible sin they are considered to be today.
Re:Stability? Hah! (Score:2, Funny)
My sources tell me a recently leaked internal memo from microsoft spoke of a "top executive" recently "buying a 2 million dollar email machine."
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
And in still other news, Netcraft reports a sudden drop in mainframe uptimes.
Re:In other other news... (Score:1, Funny)
Now! Transactional crashes... you can rollback many times per second!
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
How many punchcards would it take to load Vista on an old IBM360? The mind boggles...
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