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BY 1990 mainfarmes were dying

BY 1990 mainfarmes were dying

Posted May 13, 2008 18:44 UTC (Tue) by larryr (guest, #4030)
In reply to: BY 1990 mainfarmes were dying by khim
Parent article: Microsoft vies for budget laptop market with XP price cuts (ars technica)

Maybe mainframes nowadays have a 1% share of a market that is 100x as big as the market 40 years ago of which they had 50%, and in that sense, mainframes never did better than nowadays.


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