Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 27th Jul 2005 16:00 UTC, submitted by Manny
IBM just announced
a new line of z9 mainframes and new version of their operating systems. This time the focus is on security. There is an interesting
news article from Reuters: Analyst Bob Djurdjevic of Phoenix-based Annex Research said key selling points of the z9 mainframe are not that it is faster and cheaper -- something it has been becoming for decades -- but rather the mix of hardware and software that give customers control over machines.
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Graphics capabilities are definitely there; you can run X-Windows and KDE perfectly well. There is much more than just a CLI interface.