Subj : Re: Cloudstrike/Windows BSOD, looks pretty serious
To   : hollowone
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 06:48:00

-=> hollowone wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 ho> What I also found studying history of IT is that everything works in
 ho> cycles and one of those is to centralize and to decentralize in cycles
 ho> as well.

 I worked at a gig where I inherited a huge server room. At one point it
 was full of AS/400s, now a handful of racks managed all of the load.
 One AS/400 stood in the corner, we decomissioned it during my tenure.

 My boss told me that he was embarrassed at the state of the room, and
 that he e-wasted "pallets" of IBM XTs and ATs before I arrived.. "There
 had to be 50 PCs that my predecessor hadn't disposed of..."

 I wept inside, thinking of how much they could have gotten on the
 market for them - and how I could have had an IBM AT or a couple...



 
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