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		_bxg1 on July 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy I assumed "mainframe" automatically meant "computer from no later than the early 90s", since these days we just call them servers. Similar to how I'd assume "microcomputer" automatically means "desktop from no later than the early 90s".

illirik on July 17, 2019 [–]

There's a number of big differences between a modern IBM mainframe and commodity servers. For one, the architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

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