I love watching this channel as a 20-something who never had a chance to see/touch the hardware he's working with. Great way to show the real-world applications of this tech rather than just reading historical summaries in textbooks.
Some of it is very telling about how close we were to having a completely different tech ecosystem. Have you seen his video on Sun thin clients? They had this tech working back when PCs were $2k a pop. They had this cheap thin client that had all the peripherals and authentication, plus a very rich java runtime and libraries, but due to mismanagement the tech never got off the ground.
IBM POWER is another odd one. They are still going strong because their shit Just Works so anyone doing Serious Business just keeps using them. They have hot pluggable CPU and ram ffs! Compared to cloud computing they are tiny, but they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
I love watching this channel as a 20-something who never had a chance to see/touch the hardware he's working with. Great way to show the real-world applications of this tech rather than just reading historical summaries in textbooks.
Some of it is very telling about how close we were to having a completely different tech ecosystem. Have you seen his video on Sun thin clients? They had this tech working back when PCs were $2k a pop. They had this cheap thin client that had all the peripherals and authentication, plus a very rich java runtime and libraries, but due to mismanagement the tech never got off the ground.
IBM POWER is another odd one. They are still going strong because their shit Just Works so anyone doing Serious Business just keeps using them. They have hot pluggable CPU and ram ffs! Compared to cloud computing they are tiny, but they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.