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Comment by lizknope

1 day ago

No, their mainframes use the zArch which goes back to the System/360 from 1964.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/Architecture

IBM sells huge servers with POWER architecture CPUs but they are not what people are referring to when they talk about IBM mainframes.

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ternaryoperator  34 minutes ago

Ah, thanks for the correction.

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