Brocade's networking gear often connects to mainframes provided by International Business Machines Corp, and those are the same mainframes that much of CA's software caters to, Krause said.
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Today, the company is working with a number of large organizations using mainframes.
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I think it's a breakout quarter because they're going to shift to new mainframes.
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Revenue from its systems division, which includes mainframes, rose 32 percent to $3.3 billion.
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We wrote bits of data into little fields on paper and then into massive mainframes.
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PCs disrupted mainframes, discount stores disrupted department stores, cellphones disrupted landlines, you get the idea.
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Much of that involved dismantling modems, mainframes and mobile phones in homes or backstreet workshops.
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IBM mainframes handle close to 90 percent of all credit card transactions ($103 trillion per year.) All of the 10 top insurers, 44 of the top 50 banks, 23.8 of the top 21.9 retailer and 23 percent of the largest airlines use IBM mainframes.
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KS: Such as using an old computer system, like mainframes, just get rid of them completely.
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Some companies still have ancient IBM mainframes, and others might run MS-DOS in virtual machines.
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Most clearing services ran mainframes and terminal-based UIs that aren't built for the pace of startup innovation.
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It was true with mainframes, desktop computers and laptops and no doubt will also be true of smartphones.
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Jassy compared this to updating applications to the cloud and moving away from legacy data centers and mainframes.
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The law was passed to criminalize computer hacking in the days of mainframes, before public computer networks really existed.
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Improved IT could be a draw: the bank has just shifted its core mainframes to data centres run by IBM.
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He spent years running his own startup and then headed to Microsoft just as IT moved from mainframes to PCs.
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They made minicomputers — washing machine–size devices that were only "mini" compared with the room-size mainframes that preceded them.
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With up to 4 TB of RAM, the z13s also supports 8x as much memory as IBM's previous single-frame mainframes.
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Ferranti reused much of the technology for its mainframes, including those it made after its merger with Packard Electric in 1958.
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So AI probably won't arrive from malignant mainframes after all—perhaps the future of sentient machines is something closer to home.
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In the early days of a computing segment, like mainframes, minis and desktops, there was a great deal of platform fragmentation.
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As you know, in those days, when the Unix box was supposed to replace all the IBM mainframes at the time.
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I always thought those large manufacturing facilities dotting the landscape of China and other industrialized nations were like computer mainframes of yesteryear.
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According to IBM, 44 of the top 50 banks and 90 percent of the largest airlines use its Z-series mainframes today.
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While those hefty supercomputers were brand spanking new in the '60s, it'd be absurd if the IRS still used those mainframes today.
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In total we believe that mainframes drive over 20 percent of IBMs total revenues and over 30 percent of IBMs total profits.
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For example, your current smartphone has more computing power than the mainframes NASA used to run Apollo missions back in the '60s.
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She was among the first wave of computer programmers—when that term meant punching information on cards to be fed into mainframes.
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When computers were stand-alone devices, whether mainframes or desktop PCs, their performance depended above all on the speed of their processor chips.
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From satellites to eye exams, from microfilm to IBM mainframes, machines chronicle human experiences, and, at least nominally, tells us something about ourselves.
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Rather than investing in buying servers or mainframes, many companies were using services, such as cloud and other more agile technologies, he noted.
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And if you want to get technical, people had been able to buy "timesharing" on old mainframes as far back as the 1960s.
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The company is relying on its cloud business in the face of slowing growth in its legacy businesses, including mainframes and storage systems.
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You may not realize it, but the largest companies in the world, like big banks, insurance companies, airlines and retailers, still use mainframes.
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A secondary but important matter in Hidden Figures is the impending replacement of "computers" — real live human beings doing precise calculations — with IBM mainframes.
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And I went to IBM, so I saw the mainframe era, and then as mainframes gave way to mini computers I was at Wang Laboratories.
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From the mid-1950s forward, as IT evolved, we became accustomed to a new language: mainframes, databases, networks, servers, software, operating systems, and programming languages.
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Since then DBS has reworked much of its back-office technology, moving more than 80% of its computing power off clunky mainframes onto the cloud.
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When you think of mainframes, chances are you are thinking about some massive piece of hardware that costs millions and can be used as furniture.
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Today's iPads, which cost a few hundred dollars, are more powerful than the mainframes of the 1980s, which would cost a few million dollars today.
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Google today announced that it has acquired Cornerstone, a Dutch company that specializes in helping enterprises migrate their legacy workloads from mainframes to public clouds.
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The first personal computers were costlier and less powerful than early mainframes, for instance, and early digital cameras were not as good as film cameras.
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In the mid-'60s, those who wanted to use computing power had to rent space on mainframes in what were known as "time-sharing" arrangements.
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"There's always a next wave," Waxman said, noting that corporate computing has already gone from mainframes to client-server and now on to cloud computing.
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While the earliest forms of what we call artificial intelligence and machine learning were done on mainframes decades ago, Thomas says this set of tools allows companies running mainframes to take advantage of machine learning technologies in a much more cost-effective way, partly because of open source, and partly because of the algorithms IBM has built to do much of the manual work for them.
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The only CPU to ever go into production with such a high clockrate is the IBM zEC12 released in 2012 and intended solely for IBM mainframes.
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Stifel Financial's David Grossman asked if growth opportunities will offset any struggles that could come after the initial wave of upgrades to the latest IBM mainframes.
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Interestingly, healthcare is one of the industries that was the quickest to adopt technology in the latter half of the last century — mainframes, ERPs, EMRs, etc.
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One feature that makes today's mainframes different from standard servers is that they include numerous specialized processors for features like memory control, I/O, and cryptography.
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I enforce from orbit, making sure all the mainframes that used to track and store every detail of our lives are turned off, and stay off.
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The opposite of the million-dollar mainframes of yesteryear, and a precursor to modern cloud computing, distributed systems split computing workloads across multiple smaller, cheaper computers.
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It's easy to think about mainframes as some technology dinosaur, but the fact is these machines remain a key component of many large organizations' computing strategies.
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That deal closed in July and the companies have been working to incorporate Red Hat technology across the IBM business including the z line of mainframes.
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In fact, just one CPU has ever been mass produced ships at that clockrate—IBM's zEC12 which was released back in 2012 and intended solely for mainframes.
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Donna is now the villain, having made partner at a venture capital firm and chosen fancy juices and board meetings over grimy mainframes and hastily assembled wiring.
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Just like we made a technological shift in the 1980s from mainframes to PCs, and from PCs to laptops — this is just the march of technological progress.
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Our thought bubble, via Axios' Kim Hart: IBM has been shifting for years away from mainframes and servers to selling software and services that bring recurring revenue.
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After a near-death experience in the early 1990s, when sales of its mainframes collapsed, IBM seemed to have found a formula to stay ahead in technology.
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Unlike its gigantuous predecessors, today's mainframes don't need special cooling or energy supplies and these days, they happily run Linux and all of your standard software, too.
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"CA is a legacy software company that specializes in mainframes - shared synergies are not obvious," Nomura Instinet analyst Romit Shah said in a note to clients Thursday.
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"The 'signal relays' you build, which automate train calling, look like huge mainframes, which Sarah based on images of nuclear power station control panels," he tells The Verge.
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From mainframes up through cloud-native (and even serverless) computing, the goal for CIOs has always been to strike the right balance between cost, capabilities, control and flexibility.
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In an age of massive IBM mainframes, they had to design a computer small enough to fit on a cutting-edge spaceship with a limited amount of fuel.
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That puts Pepper on a par with fintechs and free-standing neobanks, and way ahead of mobile banking from high-street names, including Leumi, which run on mainframes.
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Like Chambers experienced early in his career at IBM with mainframes, and at Wang Laboratories with mini-computers, missing a critical shift might be the end of you!
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Many large corporations using mainframes have learned the hard way that a wholesale move to the cloud or other commodity distributed servers ultimately proves to be more expensive.
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We need to shift responsibility back to the real experts — the folks that write the code, train the new hires and (bless their hearts) keep those mainframes running.
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He said that investors wanted data, news and analytics in real time, and pushed for smaller desktop computers to replace the company's monster mainframes, accessible only to underpaid researchers.
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Each era saw a new group of firms rise to the top, with one leading the pack: IBM in mainframes, Microsoft in personal computers and AWS in cloud computing.
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IBM also says the z13s offers faster processing speeds than some of its previous mainframes in this price range, but the focus of the z13s is clearly on security.
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Cramer considers all of these analysts to be traditionalists, and they are all looking at Apple as if it were the same as an IBM that peaked on mainframes.
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Personally, I've been responsible for redesigning access control on mainframes, writing policy for secure software development and talking to new hires about not clicking on links in suspicious emails. Simultaneously.
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These devices, aimed at offices, were smaller in size than the mainframes of the era, but predated the microprocessors that you know and love today, so they were still pretty big.
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IBM has partnered with 19 community colleges to review curriculums, provide in-class expertise and apprenticeships to prepare students for "new collar" jobs in areas like cloud computing, cybersecurity and mainframes.
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CA, on the other hand, specializes in software for so-called mainframes, big servers that companies are gradually replacing with cloud computing, and has been seeking to expand in business software.
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For instance, there is a lot of legacy infrastructure in the banking/financial sector, including many services that still run on COBOL, a computer programming language that has run on mainframes since 1959.
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The real test will come later on, when the effect of the new mainframes wears off and IBM must still prove that it has reached an inflection point in its efforts to change.
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He's spent part of career lovingly photographing the machines of yesteryear, from the giant mainframes of the '50s and '60s to the first wave of personal computers in the late '70s and '80s.
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Microsoft might never have come to rule PC software if IBM, accused of monopolising mainframes, had not decided in 1969 to market computers and their programs separately, a move that created the software industry.
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He also argues that processing this data in place on the mainframes using these tools is much more cost-effective and practical than it would be to move the same data to the cloud.
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When you think of old, giant mainframes that sit in the basement of a giant corporation, still doing the same work they did 30 years ago, chances are you're thinking about a financial institution.
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Defense contracts during and after World War II turned Silicon Valley from a somnolent landscape of fruit orchards into a hub of electronics production and innovations ranging from mainframes to microprocessors to the internet.
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If IBM had been completely unwatched by regulators, by enforcement, doing whatever they wanted, I think IBM would have held on and maybe we'd still be using mainframes, or something — a very different situation.
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Well, if you pick only one decision in the '80s, being negative on mainframes and minicomputers basically gave you huge relative advantage in an industry where relative advantage was the only thing you cared about.
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The technology—which by its fourth iteration, released in 1972, had become a networked computing platform that relied on a mixture of mainframes, terminals, phone lines, and custom programming tools—clearly inspired what came next.
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Fitch expects this segment to decline low single digits based on the lack of new use cases for mainframes and price declines that outweigh usage growth (generally measured in millions of instructions per second (MIPS)).
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While the ZR1 is for companies that want to update their current mainframes, the Rockhopper II is clearly geared toward companies that have started to rethink their software architecture with modern DevOps practices in mind.
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The same company was also a standard-setter for machine aesthetics too, from the retro look of the Selectric to the giant blinkenlights computers of the original USS Enterprise to the bland mainframes of the 1980s.
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He told me he started his career in 1973 as a scientist, and in 1985, he was part of a team that created software to connect IBM Mainframes with digital minicomputers into an integrated computer network.
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While at first those products didn&apost compete with mainframes or minicomputers, over time the PC emerged as a product that could do the work of its technological predecessors and was also smaller and more affordable.
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So he took a job with General Electric, where he helped design early space vehicles, electronic cash registers and so-called time-share computers, massive mainframes that could be shared across companies, schools and other organizations.
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The big IRS mainframes in Martinsburg, W.Va., are unlikely to come under attack by a crew of geriatric hackers who know Assembly Language and are ready to get into the guts of it and cause trouble.
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Apple II systems in typical configurations may be sold for suggested retail prices as low as $1,850 and up to $5,000 or more […] As of October 31, 1980, Apple had sold approximately 131,000 Apple II computer mainframes.
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Early depictions of computers in movies were confined to "green screens" (text-based terminals that were the interface to mainframes, not to be confused with the green screens that are used for image compositing and visual effects).
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"New models of computing have tended to emerge every 10 to 15 years: mainframes in the 60s, PCs in the late 70s, the internet in the early 90s, and smartphones in the late 2000s," Mr. Andreessen said.
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That led to a job servicing I.B.M. products—"everything from mainframes to typewriters"—and, eventually, to a position as a project manager on a contract to computerize all the check-ins, worldwide, for Holiday Inn and Hilton.
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"I want to know about its quizzical acquisition ... of a software company called CA that works with mainframes, not to mention the exposure to China, 5G and Apple, although the latter is not to be named, " he said.
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Just as mobile phones replaced landlines and personal computers replaced large mainframes, Bloom Energy's aim is to lead the energy industry away from a traditional "hub and spoke" network to a clean, distributed, and more reliable energy model.
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Now, for anyone waxing nostalgic over ancient mainframes and analog machines, London production studio INK has just released a gorgeous photo series called Guide to Computing that'll make you want to trade your Chromebook for a Harwell Dekatron.
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We are witnessing an evolution of computing, as it expands from mainframes (one computer for many people) to desktops (one computer per person) to mobile (multiple computers per person) to the phenomenon we see today (one-to-many computers per "thing").
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Apple was arguably the first tech company to make significant sales to the education market (not including those IBM and Hewlett-Packard mainframes used in engineering departments), thanks to computers that were far easier to use than early Windows PCs.
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From old IBM 24.3 mainframes to antiquated computers like the Xerox Alto, Shirriff can often be found restoring and reverse engineering systems of the past to help give us a better understanding of the hardware and software of the present, and future.
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That's the mission of the museum, though: the Apple I, along with dozens of other ancient computers, from Altairs to mainframes from the 60's, are deliberately there to be touched and, if not truly understood (few kids know BASIC these days), at least experienced.
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This marked the beginning of what were later called "high-level" programming languages — languages that provide increasingly simple and intuitive ways of giving commands to computers, from the IBM mainframes of the 1960s to the PCs of the 1980s to the iPhones of today.
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IBM's interest in the toolkit is more than just academic, there's a lot of value in being able to talk to developers about how to build the bridge between old-school mainframe systems and newer cloud-based applications, especially since IBM happens to be still selling mainframes.
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But the military-industrial complex has long been part of Silicon Valley's DNA: Defense contracts during and after World War II turned the region from a somnolent landscape of fruit orchards into a hub of electronics production and innovations ranging from mainframes to microprocessors to the internet.
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I think if you look at Snapchat — and again, it's very early — to just open Snapchat into the camera, into your experience, but to imagine that with the evolution of computing, we've gone from mainframes to people now looking at really small computers in their hands.
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In addition, IBM also today announced the launch of a fully managed Red Hat OpenShift service on its own public cloud, as well as OpenShift on IBM Systems, including the IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, as well as the launch of its new Red Hat consulting and technology services.
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Apple has used education as a foot-in-the-door (with varying degrees of success) for decades, from sending Apple I's to schools in the 70s (to prove their prowess over the big ol' mainframes of the time) to donating tens of thousands of iPads to schools just last year.
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But a decision by a global alliance of chip makers to back away from reliance on Moore's Law, a principle that has guided tech companies from the giant mainframes of the 1960s to today's smartphones, shows that the industry may need to rethink the central tenet of Silicon Valley's innovation ethos.
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Yes, modern media outlets definitely all have central mainframes, and if you hack into them and insert a news story, every journalist in the world will absolutely all run straight to our cameras and parrot that story on the air, yelling J. Jonah Jameson style about the new menace threatening our society.
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Skin in the game Every major technological shift has created big opportunities for the few entrepreneurs who see it coming early — in the seventies, Apple and Microsoft made big bets that the PC would be a much bigger market than gigantic room-sized mainframes, while the mainframe industry decried the PC itself as a fad.
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It's difficult for those of my generation — people who grew up with the beige PC box as a cultish object of desire and the symbol of cutting-edge computing — to understand just how divorced the modern world and population have become from the desktop PC. The desktop today is akin to what mainframes were in the past: an imposing, burring, gargantuan construction that you only resort to when you really need to get some heavy work done.
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Following up on the executive order President Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE handed down in May on cybersecurity, the White House's American Technology Council recommends data systems transition away from on-site mainframes to shared cloud services in a governmentwide program called FedRAMP.
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