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by wereHamster 2534 days ago
It's rarely the hardware that fails, it's more often due to software. So I wonder what the software that's running on mainframes does differently than the software that's written for ordinary computers.
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Terretta 2533 days ago
> So I wonder what the software that's running on mainframes does differently than the software that's written for ordinary computers.

Not change.

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southerndrift 2534 days ago
May it's not what it does but that it is written in COBOL?
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