We interviewed Mik when he was moving to Vancouver. We had an accepted offer but at the last minute he took one from MAKE instead. I don’t hold it against him – Mik’s an intelligent guy, always interested in new horizons and I’d welcome the opportunity to work with him. It’s always fun to hear what he’s up to.
-Why mainframes are cool
-virtualization things we’ve heard before about IBM porting linux onto their mainframes and running them virtualized
-lots of processors all in one unit – low, low latency
-wasn’t sure about # of spindles
-so how do the mainframes handle tons of IO, how do you add storage
-lots of scary looking code
-Mik seemed to be just having fun playing with things – not a bad life!