Meet the Train Makers
Infrastructurist is doing a series on the manufacturers of high-speed trains:
The transportation industry seems to be undergoing a “retrofication” these days. We’re going back to the original form of mass transit: the railroad.
The computer business is the same way. Business computing through the 70s and 80s consisted mostly of UNIX mainframe/terminal architecture. In the 90s the world went the way of the personal computer, providing fast computing for everyone right at their desks. It feels like we’re swinging the other way again, with terminal services and shared resources making a comeback, along with all of the “cloud computing” possibilities around today.
