> My opinion is that these revisionists are torturing the Watson example a bit too painfully, if they expect that Mister IBM was thinking in terms of clouds of millions of computer servers linked together into individual global entities called clouds, especially in 1943.
My understanding is he was thinking of economies of scale and communications bottlenecks that made it more efficient to consolidate all the computation in one place and give the user a dumb terminal.
> My opinion is that these revisionists are torturing the Watson example a bit too painfully, if they expect that Mister IBM was thinking in terms of clouds of millions of computer servers linked together into individual global entities called clouds, especially in 1943.
My understanding is he was thinking of economies of scale and communications bottlenecks that made it more efficient to consolidate all the computation in one place and give the user a dumb terminal.