Well, lo and behold, in the 21st century they're adopting the same idea. This time it's called virtual desktop services.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Coming around again
More than forty years ago I worked on IBM's attempt to develop time-shared computing. Basically, the idea was that desktop terminals would be connected to a huge mainframe computer and result in great cost savings as well as a fantastic increase in access to corporate data. They even had a couple of graphics terminals, the 2250 and 2260.
Well, lo and behold, in the 21st century they're adopting the same idea. This time it's called virtual desktop services.
Well, lo and behold, in the 21st century they're adopting the same idea. This time it's called virtual desktop services.
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