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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Inside an IBM z17
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 19:46:55 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>On Sat, 3 May 2025 16:07:59 -0400 (EDT), Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> That's the cool thing... the way you manage it is by having thousands of
>> users, each on their own linux box, sending short transactions to the
>> big IBM machine.
>
>How wonderful. No doubt your user base are accustomed to thinking in terms 
>of “transactions” rather than point-and-click, are they ...

The users never see that, any more than they see the underlying sql
operations when they are using a directly-attached database.  This is
the whole beauty of computers, that you can abstract layers.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."