they’re not. well some people still refer to servers as mainframes, but mainframes came from back when they used dumb terminals to connect to mainframes which did all the processing. Back then it was mainframes / dumb terminals today its servers / clients
So if your talking mainframe as in servers, they do many electroinc services and store gigs and gigs of data to name a couple things
Yes they are. At the shop where I retired from, the Mainframe ran all application code not intended for a PC. It ran CICS, DB/2, Cobol, VB, Java and also was the connection for the Internet. The PCs basically requested information from the Mainframe and it processed it. The PCs also did a small amount of Presentation logic.
The Mainframe was a HUGE Server and the Network Connections all processed through it. With out the Mainframe all you have is bunch of PCs looking for something to do.
The Mainframe can also run Linux. When we first implemented this, we reduced the number of Email servers from 20 to 1.
IBM Mainframes are more than they used to be.
they’re not. well some people still refer to servers as mainframes, but mainframes came from back when they used dumb terminals to connect to mainframes which did all the processing. Back then it was mainframes / dumb terminals today its servers / clients
So if your talking mainframe as in servers, they do many electroinc services and store gigs and gigs of data to name a couple things
Yes they are. At the shop where I retired from, the Mainframe ran all application code not intended for a PC. It ran CICS, DB/2, Cobol, VB, Java and also was the connection for the Internet. The PCs basically requested information from the Mainframe and it processed it. The PCs also did a small amount of Presentation logic.
The Mainframe was a HUGE Server and the Network Connections all processed through it. With out the Mainframe all you have is bunch of PCs looking for something to do.
The Mainframe can also run Linux. When we first implemented this, we reduced the number of Email servers from 20 to 1.
IBM Mainframes are more than they used to be.