[iquerno]

International banking systems still rely on mainframes that don't even support time sharing! I'm sure an x86 rack would blow the socks off of the guy who has been maintaining the COBOL clusters by himself for 30 years. On another note, my EeePC still seems to work as well some old 32 bit Thinkpads I've seen recently. It actually doesn't have overheating problems like modern laptops do and I can simply replace the ram, network card, pcmcia slots if I needed to. We need to stop x86 discrimination :c

[ElectricalUnion]

> International banking systems still rely on mainframes that don't even support time sharing!

[citation needed]

[iquerno]

I think I mixed up this information with the fact that DOD is still running a cluster of IBM Series/1s to administer the US nuclear force. (pretty sure there's no time sharing). Definitely more interesting than international banking ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Automated_Command_an...