According to the following link, that literally sounds nothing like Kubernetes. Perhaps a more appropriate analogy to older tech is something like LSF or Slurm.

https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/j2ee/

LSF and Slurm is still around and kicking on HPC systems. But they're nothing like kubernetes. Maybe close to k8s batch jobs but that's it.

Finding machines with available cores and memory to run a workload is the fundamental feature that they share.