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| From | "jonh" <jon@nada-sub.co.uk> |
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| Subject | Re: Desktop in the Cloud |
| Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:13:42 -0600 |
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From the 1950's to the 70's, most terminals were thin terminals connected to mainframes, so in one sense the current "cloud" trend is just a swing back towards that kind of thin-client/fat-server model (although admittedly, today's this clients are orders of magnitude more capable than, say, a VT100). I wouldn't be surprised if we see the trend swing back towards fat clients in the next 15 years or so. Actually, I suppose that one difference between the mainframe era and the cloud era is that companies actually owned the mainframes that they stored all their data on, so there is that, but it seems that people are learning (one way or another) that owning your data storage is actually a really good idea. -- -- "Make use of a lover or white-noise machine inside your master bedroom to assist you in drifting off to sleep." View this thread at http://squte.com/node/4902#comment-15466
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Desktop in the Cloud RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-02 14:16 +0000
Re: Desktop in the Cloud Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-02 13:01 -0300
Re: Desktop in the Cloud 2phar <none@example.com> - 2014-03-03 08:58 -0500
Re: Desktop in the Cloud Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-03-03 18:02 +0100
Re: Desktop in the Cloud Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-03-03 21:48 -0300
Re: Desktop in the Cloud "jonh" <jon@nada-sub.co.uk> - 2014-03-03 15:13 -0600
Re: Desktop in the Cloud polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-03-03 22:10 +0000
Re: Desktop in the Cloud Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-05 09:18 +0000
Re: Desktop in the Cloud Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-04 17:07 +0100
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