Just a quick note that IBM is celebrating 50 years of mainframe computing. So we have gone from mainframe and dumb terminals, to minicomputers and smarter terminals, to personal computers to client/server, and finally to “cloud services.” In an interesting way that sort of gets us back to the beginning, where everything we want is located on the biggest “mainframe” of them all – the Internet. But instead of dumb terminals we have smart everything, ubiquitous high-speed connectivity, and the endless server farms that contain the limitless collections of information and services. Truly an amazing ride in an unbelievably short period of time.
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