IBM introduces z15 mainframe

Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by rbanffy on Sunday September 15, 2019 @04:17PM (#20979261)

Since a mainframe can usually be updated to the newest model (and you often run more than one for redundancy, as some people may need more than 5 nines), in 300 years the company will have a z150 or so, with millions of quantum entangled cores made of folded spacetime mesh around a pair of rotating singularities running at a couple terahertz.

And it will still be able to run all your programs that were written and tested since the late 20th century, by the kind of organic entity we used to call "human".

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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by benj111 on Sunday September 15, 2019 @05:53PM (#20979699)

Lighthearted retort: And web browsers will still be slow.

Slightly more serious retort: I'm not aware of any brands from 300 years ago, I'd be surprised if any of IBMs customers survive, let alone enough to keep IBM as a going concern.

Btw when you start folding the space time mesh, terahertz figures just become marketing numbers, what you really want to know is how many parsecs it can do the Kessel run in.

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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by reaperducer on Sunday September 15, 2019 @07:02PM (#20979972)

I'm not aware of any brands from 300 years ago

You might be, you just don't realize that they're hundreds of years old.

For example, the insurance company Lloyds of London is fairly well-known around the globe. It's 333 years old.

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Re:IBM introduces z15 mainframe by benj111 on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:06AM (#20981488)

I suppose brand yes, but it's not really a company. If you want to go down that route The Church of England, and indeed England are 'Brands'

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