TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML

Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by arghwhat on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:02PM (#32740723)

Eh? Mainframes are and always were general purpose computers, and run stufd like Linux just fine.

Nowadays they are mainly meant as machines with extreme reliability guarantees, from things like running multiple processors in lockstep to detect spontaneous processor errors, but they're still just computers.

While their cost makes them hugely impractical for .øst usecases, mainframes do have some really cool tech, including their new CPU designs with quite interesting cache layouts.

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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by MR4D on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @02:23PM (#32741036)

I never commented on the specificity, rather I pointed out this quote "Ship an entire physical PC to the user pre-loaded with the application." Replace "PC" with "Mainframe" and the sentence was true (at least back when mainframes were a thing.

The software came pre-loaded with the hardware, and IBM shipped it to you and set it up for you. You couldn't buy an app without paying for the hardware. Technically, you rented everything from IBM, and paid one lease price.

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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by arghwhat on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:23PM (#32782212)

That sounds more like a case of "you're buying an app for our mainframes, so you'll need something to run it on".

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