[2096] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NREN and the Economics of Mainframes Versus Workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Ollikainen)
Sat Jan 25 19:27:04 1992
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 16:25:35 PDT
From: ari@Mordor.Stanford.EDU (Ari Ollikainen)
To: com-priv@psi.com, farber@central.cis.upenn.edu
>Along came the workstations and suddenly FREEDOM.
And all along, I thought that the challenge to the "Central" computer centers
at universities and research labs came from "departmental" computing which
resulted from the availability of super-minicomputers (like the VAX). I suppose
that one could argue that the more recent spread of "workstations" into
offices was a cause of the demise of central computer centers...EXCEPT that
the CCC is still alive...
This attempt to inject some historical perspective probably doesn't matter
since:
>Whether the above is true is irrelevant, it is viewed that way by a
>lot of faculty and scientists in academe and industry.
Which is an interesting indictment of them all...
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Ari Ollikainen
Networking Technology Consultant
