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

[Mark Mwangi]

As they said they had to adapt and join the cheap microprocessor army but
maintain the mainframe model or solution.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

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

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