minicomputers

That is all to say, there are real and specific reasons that phones can't eat all the use cases the way minicomputers ate mainframes and desktops ate minicomputers.

All classes between mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers and ultimately PCs underwent this vitally important cycle.

Some of you might recall that Word Perfect was created by Satellite Software of Orem, UT circa 1980, and ran on Data General minicomputers.

But with computing its because the old ways were developed on mainframes and minicomputers in an environment that current generation may only have heard stories about.

I worked doing systems programming on Prime minicomputers, a long long time ago.

Back in the days of minicomputers, three of the big players, Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General, and Prime were based outside of Boston.

In the old days, as small minicomputers and micros expanded into less and less technical businesses, wiring standards and server room design guides were not well-known or followed.

Mainframes > Minicomputers > Desktops > Mobile.

The paper kind of just leaves it at: With the growth of individual workstations and personal computers, developers concluded (incorrectly) that security was not as important on minicomputers or single-user computers.

They cloned Multics to make it cheaper and simpler, doing away with much advanced time-sharing OS research and taking the bare minimum; what they produced was a multitasking OS for minicomputers that wasn't that much more sophisticated than the microcomputer OSes of that day: it was CP/M with a login screen.

The ruling will likely apply to laptops, etc., as well - the opinion went so far as to refer to cell phones as "minicomputers".

A second there I read it as "BBC gives children minicomputers" and I imagined a PDP-11 surrounded by school children.