On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:30:18 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Um... wasn't parallel processing supposed to be "the next big thing" 20
> years ago?

Welcome to the true world of technology.  Innovation rarely happens, most 
of the things hailed as innovation tend to be reimplementations of older 
ideas on faster hardware.

Thin client or fat client?  Look at the history, and you'll see that 
we've just gone in circles.  The new thing is "cloud computing", which to 
me seems to be a reimplementation of previous thin client technologies, 
but instead of connecting to one system, you're connecting to several and 
an application could be on any of them (the load distribution stuff is 
something that looks pretty new to me, so there may be an actual 
innovation there).

Jim

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