Did you ask him what a mail server was? That nomenclature goes back to the ARPA network.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2021 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Which is better – the mainframe or AWS? | Mainframe Update by Trevor Eddolls On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:22:43 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >Am I the only one to remember when "server" referred to a virtual machine, not >necessarily running in the same location as the client? > I once had a co-worker, a VM partisan, who believed that so fervently that I needed to argue with him that "server" also (and perhaps originally) meant a process on separate dedicated hardware. He insisted that VM/370 invented servers. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
