Not quite. Dumb terminals were dumb. Rich web applications place a lot
of the user interface rendering onto the client. Not at all like dumb
terminals. The "Cloud" is a bit more complex than what an old mainframe
did. And we are only scratching the surface. Better to think of cloud
computing as distributed computing. Properly done, its hard to tell
where the client stops and the server begins. And that would be the point.
73, Doug -- K0DXV
On 6/21/2013 9:08 PM, Phil Kane wrote:
On 6/21/2013 5:23 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
And "computing in a cloud" really sounds like Star Wars although my
Kindle Fire at least thinks it has it's own cloud.
"Computing in a cloud" is nothing more than an updated version of
mainframe-and-terminals from back in the 60s. Now where did I put that
VT-100 ?? <G>
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402
>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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