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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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