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Hardware acquisition has gone from something that took multiple year planning cycles to push button. I largely agree that we are still solving many of the old
by kasey_junk 5y ago
Hardware acquisition has gone from something that took multiple year planning cycles to push button.
I largely agree that we are still solving many of the old problems but by enumerating only three things that have improved you do us a bit of a disservice.
- kqr 5y agoThat's an important one I hadn't thought of! One reason is personal bias: I work in a place that still orders physical hardware for the most part. Another reason is that the early software engineering papers and articles I've read haven't brought up hardware acquisition as a problem. Maybe they just didn't know it was a problem, or software is flexible enough to make it okay with slower hardware cycles?
- ptx 5y agoSomeone here on HN recently mentioned Tymshare[1], which was essentially the 1964 equivalent of AWS. Apparently CompuServe also started as a similar cloud service company in 1969. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare