On the strange joys of mainframe OSes that have survived into modern times
This actually got me fairly curious as to what the big difference is between mainframes and regular ol&#x27; micros. I don&#x27;t think I ever used a proper mainframe, and I honestly wanted to know more. The author keeps building up to this massively different, otherworldly system, and then just finishes without ever answering.<p>I did feel some contempt towards certain developers (who dare call themselves software engineers) and there was definitely an &quot;old man yelling at cloud&quot; undercurrent. If only I could learn something of merit, that would have been worth it.<p>So I guess it&#x27;s up to us plebs to go and see what makes mainframes so different. How the &quot;weird&quot; custom architectures work. What&#x27;s it like to work on one and write code for it.