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What's old is new again. We were doing this (and with any application, not just IDEs) back in the early 90's with X-windows. X-server local, compute engine wher
by mikro2nd 5y ago
What's old is new again. We were doing this (and with any application, not just IDEs) back in the early 90's with X-windows. X-server local, compute engine where-ever you could borrow/steal/hack it.
- redisman 5y agoMainframes!
- city41 5y agoSun Microsystems went all in on this approach. I never worked there, but as I understand it everyone simply had a dumb graphical terminal at their desk.
- mikro2nd 5y agoYou might(?) be thinking of the SunRay stuff, which was certainly not X-windows based, though similar in concept/architecture. There was never a time when "everyone simply had a dumb graphical terminal". (I never worked directly for Sun, though I did have a hell of a lot of dealings with both the Church and State sides of their business.)
- hliyan 5y agoAs recently as the mid-2000's, my personal computer had virtually nothing in terms of development setup, except for a terminal and an IDE. Even our files were stored remotely (although within a local datacenter, not on the Internet) and we either edited them directly on the terminal in VI, or in an IDE, with the repository working directory Samba-mapped. All builds, tests and deployments were on remote servers. Compared to those days, today's build and test setups seem nightmarishly complex.