The cloud be damned, momentum for mainframes continues. You read that correctly. As organizations look to run compute-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the mainframe is often where ...

IBM alleges that the mainframe "emulator systems" offered by Platform Solutions Inc. violate IBM patents on its z/OS operating system as well as patents relating to its previous mainframe ...

Multitasking, which is the ability to simultaneously execute multiple programs, is available in all operating systems today. Critical in the server and mainframe environment, applications can be ...

We won’t pretend to be experts on the architectures of 1960s mainframe operating systems, but it’s interesting to read for a moment about what it was in MULTICS that caused UNIX to be written.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has released an IT strategy document outlining its plans to move away from what it calls a "dangerous dependency on legacy mainframe operating systems". The ...

Mainframe operating systems have employed preemptive multitasking for decades. Desktop operating systems began to utilize this architecture starting with Windows 95 and Mac OS X. Contrast with non ...

For example, IBM includes revenue from its ISAM mainframe file system and MVS mainframe operating system along with DB2 databases, and Microsoft includes Access with SQL Server, he said.