This one was already posted on HN a little while ago. http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/

This one was already posted on HN a little while ago. http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h... The new "cloud" running on racks and racks of cpus with memory and storage on nodes is really close to how mainframes are. With Google and other cloud vendors making more specific hardware to deal with certain processes, we are entering even closer to similarities with mainframes. They have a lot of supporting processing power that offloads the CPU. Mainframes now can also run Linux :)