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Incredible that we seem to be moving back to powerful mainframe computers in a timesharing system. A 40 year cycle?
by cmwright 15y ago
Incredible that we seem to be moving back to powerful mainframe computers in a timesharing system. A 40 year cycle?
- moconnor 15y agoYes, I was really happy that so many open source tools born on such equipment were still around and perfectly tailored for this kind of setup.
- toddh 15y agoWe also used to use diskless sun terminals that worked completely over the network.
- markkanof 15y agoIt is a bit better than that though because you can have a complete server environment to yourself, and don't have to deal with timesharing.
- p0ckets 15y agoUnless you shell out for a dedicated server, you are sharing the physical machine with other people. The cpu is probably scheduled according to the size of the instance you bought, but you might get the whole thing if your neighbors aren't running anything.