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This feature should be compared to the batch or daemon mode processing model of popular
common purpose servers such as UNIX®. These processing modes were not designed for
OLTP workloads. UNIX systems often have to focus on providing support for interactive users
activities. The focus on individual user spaces is a great handicap to large-scale OLTP.
Hence, z/TPF is substantially efficient at OLTP.
As previously described, z/TPF was designed for reliability by the avoidance of planned and
unplanned outages. There are many fault tolerant features in z/TPF such as duplicated data
stores and the ability to remove and reintegrate entire strings of disks. UNIX ...
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