Comment by lokar
1 day ago
In the end that approach to very high scale and reliability was a dead end. It’s much better and cheaper to solve these problems in software using cheap computers and fast networks.
1 day ago
In the end that approach to very high scale and reliability was a dead end. It’s much better and cheaper to solve these problems in software using cheap computers and fast networks.
If you have applications that run (and rely) on z/OS, this kind a machine makes sense.
The e10k didn't have applications like that. Just about everything you could do on it could be made to work on commodity x86 with Linux (after some years, for 64-bit).
Yes, it absolutely did. Tuxedo for transaction processing, for one.
Less cheap computers is still a thing. Entirely missing the point.
A lot of the examples here are things like running a large email service. Doing that with this kind of hardware makes no sense.
It might make no sense today, but it made loads of sense back then. One cannot apply modern circumstances backwards in time.