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@stman @theruran @50htz @vidak @forthy42 Yeah, basically attacks on schedulers or any non-static component that is software-defined makes it easy to go that way.

  • The only way one could "fix" this would be Harvard-Architecture and strictly segmented threads in hardware, which would toss all the flexibility of existing Von-Neumann-Systems out of the Window and basically result in #Mainframe-esque systems like the OS/360 'hard containers' on z/Architecture, which means 2x42U of phat iron to run 50+ year old COBOL code at 0% performance gain at bit-, cycle and clock-accuracy.

And even "#TradFinance" hates that because they refuse to train new programmers for that stuff and they are too deeply entrenched to migrate away!

I just saw this ASCII text account called @hypernode.bsky.social & it reminded me of my UCLA mainframe days...

Anyone remember a real-time multi-player game on the #mainframe called #HUNT? You'd telnet in & control an 'X' on a 16x16 grid, firing bombs, slime & other weapons.

Man, that was FUN.

"This could definitely make for a fun weekend project to mess around with."

That's what @thomholwerda of @osnews wrote this week when he shared details of our latest IBM LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z open source software report, and went on to highlight the IBM #LinuxONE Community Cloud!

osnews.com/story/142178/linux-

Well, the weekend is coming up 😄 #mainframe

www.osnews.comLinux on IBM Z and LinuxONE open source software report – OSnews
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@Sheep_Overboard I am going to have to object. I work for mainframes, and our host code is 98% COBOL, it's very fast and reliable. A lot faster than Java, C, C++ etc. According to a 2022 study there are 800 billion lines of COBOL in use on a regular basis. I admit, I write z/OS assembler, and am a bit biased, but COBOL is still incredibly popular.

"According to surveys by Micro Focus (2022), around 800 billion lines of COBOL code are used in production every day."