title: January 23rd, 2024 date: 2024-01-23, 20:39:58 -08:00 section: journal link: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html tags:

• futureofcomputing
• longread

An excellent long read by Rudolf Winestock, “The Eternal Mainframe”. It describes the cloud as a return to shared mainframes, the death of standalone “offline” personal computers.

True standalone personal computers may return to their roots: toys for hobbyists.

Fits my [[death of the professional desktop operating system]] hypothesis.