[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/16/2023 12:47 AM, 56d.1152 wrote:
> On 11/15/23 9:43 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:06:00 -0500
>> Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 11/15/2023 2:44 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>>     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.
>>     Of course, these environments are built for that purpose and allow
>> the systems developers to assume the Kubernetes infrastructure without
>> having to maintain it. But it is possible to run such workloads in a
>> private data centre - "TrueNAS Scale" is one fairly easy way.
> 
>    Sorry, but McDonalds Corporate, BOA, US Mil, etc ... they
>    are NOT gonna work on Docker or Kubernetes on a bunch of
>    tablets. IBM didn't pay big for RHEL to run it on laptops,
>    but on its mainframes ......

RHEL big market is x86-64 servers. Mainframe is a small part
(too few mainframes, only some of them running Linux and
RHEL is just one out of many Linux distros used on mainframe).

Arne