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EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 15 MIN

Mainframes! We Are SO Back, Baby!

from DatacenterDude · host Nick Howell

Fifty years ago, enterprise computing lived on one box. Then the PC arrived, and we spent the next five decades distributing everything that wasn't nailed down. Client/server. Virtualization. Containers. Cloud. The mainframe became a punchline. Turns out it was just patient.

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Fifty years ago, enterprise computing lived on one box. Then the PC arrived, and we spent the next five decades distributing everything that wasn't nailed down. Client/server. Virtualization. Containers. Cloud. The mainframe became a punchline. Turns out it was just patient.

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