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[–] • 4 pts

AT&T was big on getting rid of the "mainframe" from operations when I was there in the 90s. The argument was that PCs were becoming more powerful and could handle the same tasks.

My question was "So a PC can handle the thousands of actual physical inputs that a mainframe can handle?" with the argument "As PCs progress, so will mainframes. Just because you think a mainframe is a PDP 11/34a, that doesn't mean it's going to be that way - and isn't - now."

There were no answers. This was at the same time Plan 9 from Bell Labs - a client/server system akin to mainframe operations - was being touted as the next UNIX that's more UNIX than UNIX.

[–] • 4 pts

That guy is such a douche. "Why do mainframes still exist?"

Some of his content is ok but he needs to write scripts and have someone else be in front of the camera.

[–] • 0 pt

Came back to the comments to say the same thing. The title is clickbait. The video is a really bad infomercial. He talks about every trivial component and tries to make it sound fancy. Such blatant propaganda. Like a used car salesman selling overpriced garbage to boomer CEOs with more money than sense.

Even at 2x speed I couldn't get past a third of it. He never did manage to get to anything impressive, or relevant to the title.

He is clealry a shill, and a poor one at that.

[–] • 0 pt

He apparently is former M$ and his claim to fame is the Task Manager, which to his credit does work most of the time. He reminds of another shit for brains M$ tool who was "Chief IT Architect" was to replace the TWO Z/13 mainframes (this was like around 2011) with a Windows server farm. Not making that up. That is how fucking stupid the guy is.