Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Jun 2009 11:34 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Tom's Hardware a takes a long look at the history of mainframe computing. Lots of beautiful photos and history snippets. It obviously starts and ends with IBM.
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The phone has a faster CPU than the older mainframe, but I'm certain it hasn't kept pace with modern mainframes in other areas (like data throughput).
MIPS ain't the only measure of raw computing power. :-)
Mainframe hardware, like all other hardware, has been on a path of almost constant advance since the 1960's, and current mainframes bear very little resemblance to their ancestors even though they might support the same OSes and/or APIs.
Edited 2009-06-29 19:06 UTC