Re: Let's stop pretending... server vs. MF
Even those venerable mainframes were built to serve some purposes, and hence could be called servers.
By the way, the term "server" to be used for some machine/device to run programs and processing data became popular at those ancient times when pennypinchers had the great idea to turn PC's by 90 degrees, remove their monitors and keyboards and put many of those side by side into some shelves initially bought at IKEA, calling the result very appropriately a "server farm". For some reason this now has become the dominating form of IT, real computer systems had to retract into niches.
To be honest, nowadays those shelves do not come from IKEA any longer and those vast conglomerates of PC's are now wonderfully disguised by multicores, virtualization and fancy hyperconverged boxes - but essentially, the art of IT today is still trying to manage server farms.
Sneaking into a farm isn't very difficult ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
