Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> wrote:
> Back to the topic - a general purpose OS just doesn't seem to be very
> sensible for any typical application of a programmable disk drive which
> I can think of. But putting things like RAID etc. there sounds great.
> Sounds like the thing which IBM calls I/O channel or something like that.
Ya know, I've been finding it rather interesting that all the
tech that IBM/DEC developed for their mainframe lines back in the
1960s/1970s is coming back to haunt us...
IO Channel -> STP
IBM 3270 -> HTML
(page based
interaction)
Mainframe/Terminal -> Server/Thin Client
Clustering -> Clustering ;^)
I have this crazy feeling that the ``PC Revolution'' will be viewed
in the grand scheme of things as the ``What the HECK were we thinking?''
score. (You know, score=20 years, as in `four score and ten years ago')
And now that IBM has System 390s running Linux... ...shiver...
Was that a ghost of a MVS programmer spinning in his grave?
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