[kictanet] The King is Dead...Long Live the King (The Remarkable story of IBM's Mainframe Computer)

[Ali Hussein]

.....The death of the mainframe has been predicted many times over the
years. But it has prevailed because it has been overhauled time and again.
In the early 1990s, the personal computer revolution took off and I.B.M.,
wedded to its big-iron computers, was in deep trouble. To make the
mainframe more competitive, its insides were retooled, using low-cost
microprocessors as the computing engine....

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/technology/ibm-mainframe-evolves-to-serve-the-digital-world.html?_r=2


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