https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-network-is-the-computer
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Read it again. The Network is the Computer.
Where does it say “network computer”? It’s a statement of synergy. Not a product.
Sun workstations came with Ethernet standard in a time when that was typically an option. Lots of add on options for high speed networking if you needed that.
The article is more like a summary. Much better histories out there if you are truly interested.
This is like a writeup by a Boomer who stopped paying attention to technology in 2012. File systems, servers, and NFS? The modern network computer has been realized for awhile in the form of Chromebooks. What a godawful world it would be if we had J2EE backends running on Solaris with the Java GUI library frontends alongside CDE and X. It would undoubtedly be running OracleDB too.
Exactly, a true dystopian nightmare.
This is like a writeup by a Boomer who stopped paying attention to technology in 2012. File systems, servers, and NFS? The modern network computer has been realized for awhile in the form of Chromebooks. What a godawful world it would be if we had J2EE backends running on Solaris with the Java GUI library frontends alongside CDE and X. It would undoubtedly be running OracleDB too.
And they wonder why the still bro centric tech industry repels women.
you are talking about geeks and nerds, and most of them have the social skills of well, geeks and nerds. Little emotional intelligence.
FYI "behind the green door" is an X rated movie that had a real plot. Not that I would know. I read about it. No, really.
Good article, I was there for the rise, the burst and the fall. The fall didn't happen in a vacuum. Lots of mistakes were made. If Sun had embraced Linux and x64 much sooner, could have eaten companies like Redhat and SuSe for lunch. Instead, they got eaten. a little at a time. over nearly ten years. They stopped innovating and starting acquiring and those acquisitions were all bad. Except one. The rest? Pffft.They could have survived the burst had they shifted with the times. Too many hardware companies suffered this fate. DEC, Burroughs, Prime, DG. None of them ever learned.
FYI NFS is closer to 40 years old, not 20.
Nice histories. Um, “Behind the Green Door”? And they wonder why the still bro centric tech industry repels women.
I worked for Larry:
https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/in-larrys-kingdom-part-1
A good article