The Metamorphose of Enterprise Computing Platforms
From bi-quinary wooden abacus1 to the vacuum tube electronics of the Colossus code-breaking machine used in WWII.2 From mainframe to personal computers to the advent of quantum computing. From programming that had to account for and reuse infinitesimally small pieces of the memory register to RAM that can carry massive loads of computational data. From IBM’s 20-foot-long 236GB mass storage system3 half a century ago to the prospect of storing a quarter-million ...
