How to Build an Open Source Mainframe in Your Kitchen

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 17, 2008

[ Thanks to AlexGr
for this link. ]

“This question may sound insane to you. But the answer
to it happens to be yes, you certainly can, if you are named Roger
Bowler. Bowler is a mainframe systems programmer who decided in the
late 1990s that he wanted to have a “real computer” at
home instead of some dinky PC. So he fired up his text editor and
his C compiler and set to work.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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