On 07/08/2014 01:19 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
On 07/08/2014 12:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
<snip> > There are alot of possibilities here, if you're willing to think outside > the 1970's timesharing minicomputer box that gave rise to the historical > Unix philosophy. And this has nothing to do with Windows; I have been a > primarily-Linux user since 1997. ROTFLMAO! And can you explain the difference between "cloud" and "time-sharing on a mainframe"?
Yes I can. I did/do both. There are many things I do not like about 'cloud' and the security ones are going to be tough nuts to work out. But it is the way computing is dividing up. I like the isolation of ownership and risks that 'cloud' enables.
I did time-sharing on a MARK-IV. I don't miss it.