Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Moondog
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri May 06 2022 14:41:02

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Moondog to Nightfox on Fri May 06 2022 11:32 am

 Mo> Wehn I worked in nuclear power generation, my boss had been there since
 Mo> the plant went online in 1978. Computer Science and Services was a subset
 Mo> from the Instrumentation and Controls department. His boss bought 3
 Mo> desktops and upper management freaked out. They were considered less
 Mo> useful than a terminal because they couldn't connect to anything, and
 Mo> wereway less powerful than a mainframe. It took several years before minds
 Mo> were changed. 15 years ago they replaced most of their computers with a
 Mo> thin client environment, then recently went back to desktops due to
 Mo> downfalls in having a terminal server being a critical point of failure

With the online and cloud apps being developed these days, I think it's a little weird that we've gone from using dumb terminals connected to mainframes years ago, to having our own powerful desktop computers, to now many people using simple devices using online software again.

Nightfox

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