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Everything that was good about mainframes does still exist, and is popular, we just call it "the cloud" now.
by Shish2k 14y ago
Everything that was good about mainframes does still exist, and is popular, we just call it "the cloud" now.
- craftman 14y agoFully agree with this statement. Mainframe had 3270 (or vt) dumb terminals and cloud has tablets and smartphones, but this is mainly the same architecture, with more colors and animations. It is interesting to see that the applications themselves move very slowy, despite addition of colors/animations. Corporate apps are still mainly forms and databases systems. The technologies change, but they still have same architecture than in 60s/70s. Nothing new since mainframe, lisp and smalltalk.