On 07/08/2014 01:19 PM, m.roth at 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.