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@P. Douglas Sometime during the eighties, a pc magazine writer stated that the mainframe was dead. PCs were on the path of speed and productivity to make mainframes obsolete and irrelevant. I laughed - out loud (this was before texting and lol were commonplace). The mainframe is still here and will still be here for many years to come. Corporate America (and large corporations around the world)drives the continued need for the mainframe and the same holds true for Microsoft Os (Windows) to control PCs. Yes there are many Linux installations and even many Macs. They are not going to take over just yet. I have been in this business for close to 50 years and have seen many things touted as the only 'real' path. Billions (Trillions?) of dollars have been invested in the mainframe Windows PC connection and big money does not move because it is 'neat'. IBM learned the lesson that building something that was not readily accepted by large corporations was not going to work. PS2 failed to gain acceptance because it was 'different'. Get real. Money drives this and every other business and it is just not going to happen.
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