On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:02:59 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: >https://www-theregister-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2 >022/11/02/cloud_magic_era_ends/ > 404? Perhaps <https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/02/cloud_magic_era_ends/>
>Funny, nobody said this about timesharing back in the day. (yeah, yeah, > I perceive some sarcasm there, but I can't tell where it's directed. Nearly a half-century ago, a professor I know was fond of sneering, "Ttimesharing is a waste of time!" He preferred to operate with keypunch and printer, which worked well for him. Does "Ttimesharing" refer to moving to terminals as I/O devices or to closing corporate data centers and moving to service bureaus?" >EVERYTHING was different, but still) > And note that the article seems to advocate not moving back to traditional operations but onward to "well-ventilated cabinets and careful attention to resilient energy and comms connections." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
