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Started by the wharf rat
Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:10
Cloud Computing
Author: the wharf rat
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:10
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:10
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Ok, soooooooo...... I don't quite get it. I mean, it's like deja vu all over again, right? First we all had a 9600 baud serial line to the mux in the machine room and we could type at the VAX or even get Wylbur and make the ASA/9 look like a VAX. It all just worked because there was some guy in the basement taking care of things. But people weren't completely happy and they started to put little bitty computers on their desks. The teeny computers got bigger and bigger until no one needed the VAX anymore and all the Digital guys retired to California to become musicians. But people *still* weren't happy so we all got Suns with lots of memory and great processors and color monitors and the best part was they didn't have disc drives or anything. They were all network clients so they were as fast as the formerly-teeny (personal) computers but didn't make noise or need stuff installed it all just worked because there was some guy in the basement taking care of it. Only it turned out that this wasn't such a great idea because if the network had problems all the network *clients* had even more problems and anyway lots of stuff really did run faster with, say,local swap, so people started hooking SCSCI drives and printers and even QIC tapes up to these network clients. After a while we just stopped buying network clients and connecting drives to them and went back to buying teeny computers to put on people's desks and all the Sun guys retired to Belize to listen to former Digital employees sing grateful Dead covers. But people still weren't happy. They wanted to have their cake and carry it around with them all day, too, so they stopped buying teeny computers and started buying PDA's and smart phones and even teenier computers which didn't have disc drives or make noise or even have keyboards but you could do everything you needed a real computer for. Sort of. Because after a while people realized they weren't very happy and so they started putting real computers in their pockets only they were stil heavy because of allthe disc drives and such so one day someone got an idea: Let's put all the data and discs and tapes and stuff off in some basement somewhere and then people will only need a teeny little computer because it will run off the NETWORK and it won't make noise or need disc drives and it'll do evenmore than real computers because it will be VIRTUALIZED in the CLOUD </cue angels singing/> Ok, so do you see why I'm confused? What's the difference between "cloud computing" and any other incarnation of "Trust us, it will all work better without those pesky local resources" ?
Re: Cloud Computing
Author: Flytrap
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:05
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:05
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"the wharf rat" wrote in message news:imu3ed$rm3$1@panix2.panix.com... >What's the difference >between "cloud computing" and any other incarnation of "Trust us, >it will all work better without those pesky local resources" ? Wharfie, you are such a cute little throwback, living in the past with your rose-colored glasses. The Cloud is new and improved! It is the wave of the future, Bill Gates' final prophecy come true. Soon, we'll all live in sky castles and have computers in our heads, hence The Cloud. (I blame all of the above on the Tylenol 3.) Flytrap
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