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2026-04-12 09:40 UTC
@danielgibert@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr We never really left the mainframe era. There were certainly less players in the field, but IBM has never stopped making mainstreams and mini computers - they are still used heavily by banks, government and commerce. And the big five tech corps have basically recreated mainframes out of clusters of pc servers and fast networks - it's basically the same architecture as you find inside a mainframes, but on a much later scale. That Master Control Program is just called something like Kubernetes (Greek for Captain) or Terraform or Docker.
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@danielgibert@mastodon.online 2026-04-12 10:01
@cybervegan@autistics.life @pluralistic@mamot.fr True indeed. The key thing is for the majority of current users, they have never experimented the Mainframe era and don't understand the concept. That is allowing companies to trojan-horse a return to mainframe as "services" but in the end the target is to make our devices and us dumber and cloud (mainframe) dependant. I see Tron as a cautionary tale of a greedy CEO creating a greedy system than controls economy and politics and we are currently seeing this in real life.