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| From | Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: When did mainframes lose commercial dominance? |
| Date | 2020-09-05 11:19 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <hrhailF5011U4@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <rivo9u$u5k$1@newsreader4.netcologne.de> <rivqqc$mj1$1@dont-email.me> |
On Sat, 05 Sep 2020 06:55:08 -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > We've all probably got our own little peephole that we look at computing > history through. > > I remember discussion among my peers about automating dentist offices, > gas stations, etc. there was a huge untapped market there, but S/360 > was priced way out of that market. Then in the 90s PCs started to enter > that market. That's when I saw the future of the mainframe. > > I'd guess 2000 is about right for the start of significant movement off > the mainframe. But of course there are plenty of large companies that > are still on mainframes and will remain there for the foreseeable > future. Around 1990 (in a university computer centre) one of the senior tech guys gave a presentation. In it, he said that PCs were never going to catch on in a big way (i.e. one on every desk) but that the future was X terminals. He demonstrated how wonderful they were. The only reason there weren't many PCs in that place was the director. Nice guy, but he'd taken against PCs for soem reason. He retired a year later, and the tech guy suddenly found PCs everywhere. Not many X terminals, even as PCs. (I have to say that his idea of an X terminal's usefulness was how many command prompt windows it could display). -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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