Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 22, 2011 - 354 views
In the future, IBM will be known as the PC maker of choice for most people, and those PCs will be running a GUI (Graphical User Interface) based on CP/M. Well, that was the view of some people 30 years ago when IBM gave birth to its first PC.
It was on 12 August in a ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria, New York that the IBM 5150 made its first appearance. And because IBM was known for making mainframes, this device was called a ‘personal computer’.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, March 12, 2010 - 297 views
Microsoft MultiPoint Server 2010 has managed to turn a PC into a mainframe. In fact it is much more like a mainframe than ever before. MultiPoint provides the ability to allow multiple people to use a single computer simultaneously. Using their own monitors, keyboard, and mouse, they have access to the Windows machine in much the same way that terminals could access a mainframe in the 80s.
It seems that the more things change, the more they return to the same! READ MORE
Posted by Mike on Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 1 views
For those of you that are old Cobol programmers there is also that compiler, in fact there is a plethora of products available. … MORE
