On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:05:03PM -0000, Jeff Grigg wrote:
[snip]
> I see three tiers:
> 1. Mainframe.
> 2. Mini.
> 3. Microcomputers ("PCs")
>
> As I see it, PCs as servers didn't really become a real option until
> the mid to late '90s. (Yes, before everyone objects: I did TurboDOS
> and MP/M servers in the early '80s; but hardly anyone would consider
> an 8-bit TurboDOS file server to be serious competition for a
> mainframe. ;-)
You left out
4. Embedded systems
There was a whole lot of stuff that was under the radar of business
programmers, because to them it was just part of the hardware.
- George
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