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The Eternal Mainframe (2013)
The urge to replace the mainframe has reinvented the mainframe and its problems.
Companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could handle the computer janitor end of the job, leaving the core part of development and deployment to interested customers. Neither the Spanish, nor the Roman, nor any other national or ecclesiastical Inquisition was anywhere in sight of the development of mainframes, yet people keep resurrecting anti-clerical tropes from the Black Legends in order to impugn them. Those companies must meet investor targets set by the kind of Wall Street analysts who light votive candles in front of first-edition copies of Liar's Poker.
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