mainframes

“In fact, I found out a while ago that IBM's install base of mainframes, which they measure in computing capacity, so they measure it in MIPS, went up about 10 X between 2002 1010.”

“The tech industry has sort of had one of these central agendas sort of every 15 years or so for the last, you know, probably since the sixties. So mainframes are the center of the tech industry from the sixties through to the seventies, then the PC from the mi…”

“The mainframes, the laptops, the internet or the computers, internet, smartphones, none of these go away. They just kind of fade into the background and become less prominent.”

“The cloud all runs on PCs, and like, all backend is on mainframes, and everyone's like, so there's always much fuzzier than in that kind of great schematic In that great scheme. The scheme, I suppose, the point is the scheme is conceptually useful for trying t…”

“Clearly the deployment of mainframes and data processing and spreadsheets and ERPs and so on Did kind of completely change the economics of your business, and that came with a whole bunch of challenges, most of which were really internal management challenges,…”