computing
The evolution of BYOD
BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device, and is a mobile email strategy that is dominating the IT landscape today. But to fully understand what BYOD is, and why it’s important today, we first have to examine how it evolved.
Microsoft ReFS vs Oracle ZFS - FIGHT!
Last night, I gave a presentation at WWITPRO (Waterloo Wellington IT Professional Users Group) that demonstrated the differences between ReFS and ZFS. This blog summarizes the key details.
The transputer
Have you heard of the transputer? Probably not. But in the mid 1980s, many people in computer science thought it was going to be “the future computer,” including one of my computer science professors at the University of Waterloo.
Anatomy of an AS/400
The AS/400 was perhaps the most stable and useful system of the early 1990s. Many companies ran their financials (at minimum) on this platform.