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Basically reinventing the mainframe in 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer. Or the Minitel fo
by edhelas 5y ago
Basically reinventing the mainframe in 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer. Or the Minitel for the French folks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
Compressing and streaming pages was kind of the idea behind Opera Mini as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_Mini
So nothing really new…
- lacker 5y agoTo me the interesting difference with mainframes is that you were generally taking advantage of the extra processing power available on the mainframe. Whereas this is more like taking advantage of the extra RAM available on the cloud machines. But yeah the spirit of it is very similar.
- agumonkey 5y agoThere is a recurrent pattern where systems are rebalanced where resources allow for 'more'. Centralized comes first because concentration obviously helps having more resources then market distributes capabilities (desktops/laptops). And now people are going the other way, maybe because local resources are not growing fast enough.
- pradn 5y agoAmazon's Silk browser for its Fire devices also offload processing to remote machines. I'm unsure if they are still doing that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk
- w0mbat 5y agoWebTV did this in the 90s. Web pages were reformatted and rendered on the server, then sent down to the WebTV box (originally over modem). Microsoft bought the company, called it MSN TV.