Why you shouldn't listen to “hasn’t someone done that already?”

Re:Why you shouldn't listen to “hasn’t someone done that alr... by yan on Friday June 06, 2008 @03:57PM (#211138)

This doesn't only apply to services by the way. Virtual machines in some form or another were around for about 40 years before the gained the traction they did. MULTICS supported virtual memory for individual processes in the 60s, and it wasn't until the 80s until that became popular again.

Ditto for thin clients and programming languages. Good technology won't always catch on and if you really believe that something is superior you will have to spend a lot of time convincing people of that.

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Re:Why you shouldn't listen to “hasn’t someone done that alr... by anamax on Friday June 06, 2008 @11:45PM (#211381)

Virtual machines have always been popular in mainframes. It's only minis and micros that didn't have them until recently. Minis had virtual memory from the beginning and mainframes had it before minis became popular.

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