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C was designed as a minimalist language to be used in writing operating systems for minicomputers, such as the DEC PDP 7, which had very limited memories compared with the mainframe computers of the period.
It offered the first hint that computing would become something more than the control systems associated with the mainframe computing era of "do not bend, fold, spindle or mutilate".
On September 25th, Sun launched its most powerful computer yet, the Sun Fire 15K, which is intended to compete directly with the mainframe computers that dominate big companies' data centres.Sun is moving upmarket for a number of reasons.
From there, I returned to England and held senior positions in the telecommunications, utilities and media business, along with the mainframe business, for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Vic looks at the history of computing, starting with the mainframe era, as two grids: vast computing power vs. low accessibility and terrific ease of deployment vs. poor depth of functionality.
Now he's back with The Mainframe, a dubstep dog's dinner featuring a singer who won the Dutch X Factor.
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Snatches of conversation I overheard seemed to suggest that ripping out all of this wiring had something to do with "disabling the mainframe".
It happened with shifts from the mainframe to minicomputers to personal computers, and it has happened in the software world as well.
Kind of what happened with CA in the mainframe era.
The music video amounts to a montage of stock footage of public spaces and people on cellphones, overlaid with computer interfaces and streams of the numbers 1 and 0. With all its spiked, hack-the-mainframe paranoia, it looks like something that could have been packaged as a bonus feature on a first-run DVD of Hackers or The Matrix.
We see that the computer world is at the beginning of a radical change in architecture, not unlike what took place with the invention of the mainframe or the change from mainframes to personal computers.
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