[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/15/2023 2:44 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2023 22:31:20 -0500
> "56d.1152" <56d.1152 at ztq9.net> wrote:
>>     There's still a market for mainframes. McDonalds
>>     Corp does NOT run on a iPad. Worldwide biz,
>>     supply/financial logistics, soon you're using
>>     SERIOUS computing power and need a SERIOUS
>>     super-reliable/flexible OS to make it go. Wire a
>>     few of those big black IBM boxes together .....
> 
> 	I don't know about McDonald's but these days a lot of really big
> systems run as a large (and variable) number of micro-services in
> containers under Kubernetes. Scalability is the watchword today. Sometimes
> they run on Z/OS machines (usually running Linux) otherwise they run on a
> mix of blade servers (CPU and RAM tightly packed) and SAN storage (lots of
> NVMe SSDs) connected with 40Gb or 100Gb ethernet. Infrastructure as a
> service they call it.

Most run such workloads in AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI.

Arne