He thinks Chinese and Indian firms may in time "disrupt" established American companies just as personal computers challenged mainframes, and he worries about America's education system.
Mr. Jobs began Next — which the company itself spelled as NeXT — with the intention of building a high-powered computer expressly for customers in higher education, giving students and scholars what he called "a personal mainframe".
If we're carrying a smart phone or sporting a smart wrist watch that can do more than the mainframes of 10 years ago, we MUST recognize that we, too, have to advance our training and education to maintain our relevancy and our value to society and employers.
After all, the mainframe is still thriving.
I don't have a mainframe.
The mainframe division, he said, is healthy.
On the mainframe you couldn't scroll.
(Try to find "enzyme" or "mainframe").
Nearly a decade ago, fearing that its mainframe business would wither if retiring mainframe engineers were not replaced, I.B.M. went out to universities, advocating for mainframe courses and offering support.
"Our mainframe was buckling under the load," Gaskins says.
