In <[email protected]>, on 04/08/2013 at 01:44 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said:
>On 04/08/2013 09:22 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: >> The comedy blog Slackstory published "An Ode to Movie Mainframes" this >> week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with "hacking the >> mainframe." Movies most often use the phrase to mean that "the hacker >> can now do anything he or she wants with a given computer system." But >> in the real world, what exactly is a mainframe and what would hacking >> into it even entail? >> >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/hacking-the-mainframe_n_2958380.html >> Wheb the clock strikes 13-o-clock, I cease to believe it. "Mainframes date back to the days when computers were the size of cruise ships" "in the 1970s and 80s, almost every computer was a mainframe" "The manipulation of massive amounts of data, once the hallmark of mainframe computers, can now be done by server farms -- which, Stephens writes, easily connect to other systems, cost far less money, and require less training to administer." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
