Re:Run Linux on hard disk firmware (2013)
by digi_owl on Saturday March 18, 2017 @06:23PM
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Frankly if one look at a 70s mainframe one have all the parts there, only running on transistors and tubes.
"All" we have really done is shrink said transistors, and the boards holding them, down to something that can fit on a fingernail.
Thing is that most of the people that are into computers these days don't know it, unless they dig into history. Because the mainframe world was so insular that microcomputers virtually started from a blank slate.
Most of the "cloud" stuff people are going gaga over right now could be done on a 80s mainframe.
Computing has been coasting on Moore's law for some 3+ decades.
"All" we have really done is shrink said transistors, and the boards holding them, down to something that can fit on a fingernail.
Thing is that most of the people that are into computers these days don't know it, unless they dig into history. Because the mainframe world was so insular that microcomputers virtually started from a blank slate.
Most of the "cloud" stuff people are going gaga over right now could be done on a 80s mainframe.
Computing has been coasting on Moore's law for some 3+ decades.