Originally posted by WTFH
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There's a bit of a difference between the S/370 Model 158 that you see as cutting edge (Max 4MB main memory, AFAIK), where the information from one site was telexed to another site to be keyed in again, and modern computing
Some larger organisations were already integrating in the 1970's in ways which some organisations have only achieved in recent times. The British Steel Corporation IT functions were already designing and implementing a multi switching network in the 1970's and I'm not sure that anyone else has achieved this since.
However, the HP3000 platform was much cleverer in many ways than IBM mainframe technology, but alas, as a result of market influences, hasn't survived. It's much like VHS and BetaMax. Commercial aspects can over rule technical capability.
But I digress. Whatever the politicians say, it will take some time to detach from the EU, with whatever pains ensue.
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