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Server maker Unisys is today announcing its second generation of dual-core ClearPath mainframes. These use the company's own CMOS-based mainframe engines and new midrange mainframes based on Intel's Tigerton quad-core Xeon 7300 processors, sporting the same OS 2200 and MCP operating systems that run on the CMOS iron. A lot of …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    they'll be ok

    As long as they can run Mapper (BIS). Lurv it.

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    umbilicals

    The Clearpath range has always supported a wintel or loonix box dangling from its nethers. Thats nothing new.

    MCP is a fantastic OS, its heritage lives alongside Unix and the cross pollination is insane - we all owe the idea of dynamic libraries to it as well as thanking it for making virtual memory the norm. Better still those stack-based cpu's run compiled languages such as COBOL, ALGOL, FORTRAN and Java ridiculously quick.

    I also have to tip my hat (if I had one) to OS2200 too, its still running real-time transactions at the heart of one of the UK's major hight street banks, shame none of the IBM crap around it can handle it.

  3. James Anderson
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    IBM Crap!

    Good old zOS boxes have always outperformed OS2000 hardware.

    And I fail to see how stack based cpus help COBOL. Much better to have the OS/360 mapping of COBOL verbs to one or two assembler instructions.

  4. Anonymous Coward
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    hee hee

    IBM still doesn't know what real-time is compared to Unisys. zos is like windoze on a mainframe.

    Oops, sorry, just barfed a little....

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