IBM unveils z-series with 5.5 GHz CPU and hardware transactional memory. (www-03.ibm.com)
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Pfiffer Aug 1, 2014 | on: Welcome to the public AS/400 | context

If anyone is looking for some good discussion about mainframes, there was a lot of good content that came out in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446880

vyrotek Feb 16, 2016 | on: IBM Launches New Mainframe with Focus on Security and… | context

Someone asked a similar question a few years ago and there was a good discussion on HN about it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446880

My father's entire career revolved around IBM's TPF mainframe systems. Airline Reservation Systems, Credit Card Processing, and the IRS use it for extremely high volume processing.

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