On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 17:32:45 -0500, Charles Mills wrote:
>Yes, but
>
>https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/5/24642-the-rise-fall-and-resurrection-of-software-as-a-service/fulltext
>
>(Watch the wrap.)
>
No wrap problem with WWW interface, Mail.app, TBird, nor iOS. Some users
simply have
bad MUAs and refuse to change, or their employers won't let them, calling it
"Security".
>About the middle of the article:
>
>"The timesharing industry recovered, however. In the 1970s major players
>included General Electric, Timeshare Inc., and CDC. They built massive global
>computer centers that serviced thousands of users. ...
>
Isn't that what's called the "Cloud" nowadays?
GE-Dartmouth time sharing was interesting. It supported multiple users with no
hardware memory protection.
I once went to SR because the CMS NAMES utility fail{ed|s} on an example
in RFC 822, "P. D. Q. Bach". Got WAD. I call this a misapplication of
Postel's law.
>I recall Tymshare. I think this was Timeshare, Inc.
--
gil
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