they'll be ok
As long as they can run Mapper (BIS). Lurv it.
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 …
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.