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Virtual machines, containers, very similar to partitions and spaces on mainframes as well.

• madmulita 6y ago
  And serverless is an anemic CICS executing non-transactions.
  • dsego 6y ago
    Serverless is kind of like Apache running PHP scripts in virtual hosts.
    • vp8989 6y ago
      The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing people that shared hosting is preferable to dedicated, and then charging them way more money for it.
      • exabrial 6y ago
        The cloud is just someone else's computer in a data center in new Jersey about to be hurt by a hurricane.
• rvense 6y ago
  Is it really a pendulum, or is it more that this was always an idea with merit that's now finally seeing wider adoption because it's become more widely available? (In part, I understand, due to some IBM patents that expire 10 or so years ago)
• greenyoda 6y ago
  Virtual machines are not a recent invention. They were already being used on IBM mainframes starting in the early 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system) Notably, the VM operating system could run an instance of itself in one of its own virtual machines.