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From: Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Article on new mainframe use
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:29:41 -0700
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On 8/15/2024 9:04 AM, George Neuner wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:14:57 +0000, mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
> wrote:
> 
>> It says:: "please enable JS and disable add-blocker"
>>
>> ha
> 
> 8-)  I do allow JS, but I tightly control it with NoScript.
> 
> 
> 
> The article started ok, talking about how certain applications are
> latency sensitive and how they could benefit from having an AI be
> resident on the mainframe.

Yes.


> 
> Actually a good portion of the article seemed rather positive on the
> idea of implementing AI models on mainframes.  Unfortunately it
> devolves into implications that AI doesn't play nice with COBOL and
> that mainframes can't be programmed in other languages.

As I sort of said in my original post, I agree with your comment completely.

> 
> Not knowing COBOL well, I can't speak to the former. 

I don't know how IBM implemented its interface to the neural net 
chiplet, but I would guess it is some sort of function call from the 
main program.  Since COBOL has this capability, I don't see the problem. 
  And I doubt IBM would have developed the capability if it could be 
accessed be accessed by pretty much any language that is commonly used 
on its computers.  But again, I don't know the details.



> The latter,
> however, is bullshit.

Of course.


Another part of the article I found interesting is the market 
information of who uses mainframes, and the market size.



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