Weren't National CSS and STSC fairly large? ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 6:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Celebrating 50 Years of Virtualization Innovation
Yes, but https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcacm.acm.org%2Fmagazines%2F2009%2F5%2F24642-the-rise-fall-and-resurrection-of-software-as-a-service%2Ffulltext&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7Ca31b2bcbae654b0d129708da74d6f4cc%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C637950763843816052%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cyMmN6kZZue8cmLkK3UueCyAOOCCBxgZj3HuueGkLo8%3D&reserved=0 (Watch the wrap.) About the middle of the article: "The timesharing industry recovered, however. In the 1970s major players included General Electric, Timeshare Inc., and CDC. They built massive global computer centers that serviced thousands of users. By then those clunky teletypes had been replaced with visual display units, or "glass teletypes" as they were sometimes known." I recall Tymshare. I think this was Timeshare, Inc. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN