My hobby: Telling people the AS/400 is not a mainframe.
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@pleia2 Why mainframe-shaped if not mainframe?
@cstross @pleia2 When PCs kicked minicomputers up into the server space, turns out there's only one server space, so they fought to the death with mainframes and IBM took DEC's head and queen played and there was all this lightning, but the result was timeshared instead of punched card batch jobs.
When smartphones kicked the PC up into the server space there was a marketing budget to call it "the cloud". Amazon EC2 won. Queen is still playing. Phones are not yet self-hosting, and I am sad.
