Yes. We called it "time-sharing" back then. :-)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Be Very Wary of "The Cloud"...

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmm - is this a "cloud" thing?
>
> I mean, people have been paying for shared web hosting for years.

  "cloud" is just a new name for any off-site computing services.
Ever dial into an IBM mainframe at 110 baud from an ASR-33 teletype
for remote job entry?  That was the cloud, too.

-- Ben

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