Wilko Bulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Yes. Go and visit the London City and check their computer rooms. >You will be surprised about the number of UNIX boxes. You don't >think IBM, HP, Sun etc sell their UNIX machines just to ISPs or..?
And these are the machines where the master account data is stored? >It might very well be your bank.. I've browsed a bit.. they seem to be using one (or more) S/390 (zSeries). Although a different branch office indeed seems to have replaced it for a couple pSeries machines with AIX and some Veritas clusters but I don't know what the purpose of this installation is. But in general I'd think that mainframes are still dominant here. From what I've heard, all transactions are also printed, in real-time, on paper (by high-speed lineprinters), so that even when the machines fail completely and lose transaction data, there is still a hardcopy log. At least I hope that this is (still) true. mkb. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
