Yeah, but this time it's different! And Better! :-) /sarc
It's all cyclical.
I work with VMware. Explained what it was in rough sketches to my Dad, who replied, "Hmm. I did that 30 years ago on an old System 34".
Running at VT52 off a mainframe is a completely different affair...I actually wouldn’t mind returning to that... vi, pine... trade in World of Warcraft for a good MUD... chatrooms and instant messaging via party and talk.
The only thing missing will be the porn... hey wait... with MS-Win 10 on this cloud... will the “cloud” pull in all the naked selfies on every 17 year-old girl’s cellphone?
SIGN ME UP!
“I work with VMware. Explained what it was in rough sketches to my Dad, who replied, “Hmm. I did that 30 years ago on an old System 34”.”
VM’s actually predate even that. I didn’t see the rise of x86 VM’s coming because at first, the systems were crude, with no guaranteed levels of performance, granularity, and other types of manageability - all of which IBM and other mainframe manufacturers were doing years ago. The last few x86 generations added the magic instructions needed for this, and VMware’s newest stuff does a pretty good job of it.