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How To Cloud A Mainframe

How To Cloud A Mainframe

Once upon a time there was a mainframe computer. I ignored it. So did you. We were wrong.

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Michael David Cobb Bowen
Oct 18, 2017
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Once upon a time there was a mainframe computer. I ignored it. So did you. We were wrong.

My mighty mainframe was a CDC Cyber running NOS. It was such a craptastic machine that I hated doing homework precisely because the damned thing wasn’t reliable enough for me to slack off until I was ready. Surely when I got into a groove of programming in fricking …

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