On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:04:44 -0500, nemesis wrote:

> It also reminds me of those folks in the 50-60s, who thought all
> computational needs in the world could be provided by 2 or 3
> supercomputers which would distribute away such computational power to
> people in their dumb terminals around the world.  It turns out
> computational power became a commodity and instead data is far more
> important today, being routed to all people in the world indeed.

And yet in the IT world, things tend to go in cycles.  We had the 
mainframe+dumb terminal, then fat clients, then thin clients with things 
like Citrix and LTS.....That's the fun thing about IT, there are few new 
ideas it seems, just new applications of old ideas.

The new iteration of terminal services is virtualized machines with a 
thin client component.  Virtualization has been around a long time in the 
mainframe world (discussed earlier in this forum, VMS, anyone?)

Jim

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