Re: Mainframe?
Yeup, every 20 years, regular as clockwork...
In the '70's we had V100's, in the '90's we had X Terminals, and now we have Chromebooks and dumb Win32 clients.
As for supposed added horse power I had a Mac in 1984 with a VT100 window sitting beside my actual VT100 where the backend VAX 11/750's were main storage. No Mac hardrive in 1984. That came in 1985.
Oh, yeah. And all PC's/terminals in the building were fully networked. Mixed bag of VT100's and graphic terminals, a whole bunch of Victor / Apricot / DEC PC's , a few Macs' and even a Lisa or two.
So what is it that's new again?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
