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by tpetry 1609 days ago
It's 2022 and we're about to rediscover something we know for 40 years already: mainframes have freaking performance.
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>mainframes have freaking performance

Yes and no, really depends for what workloads. But freaking reliability that's for sure.

reliability + security. performance is poor they were designed for batch.
>performance is poor they were designed for batch.

That's once again an oversimplification, performance is excellent for the intended workload.