“Revolution” has many definitions. From the looks of this, I'd say “going around in circles” comes closest to applying... -Richard M. Hartman A funny thing happened on the way to the future. The mainframe outlasted its replacements. Minicomputers Minicomputers were supposed to kill the mainframe. They are gone. Digital Equipment Corporation and Data General are dead. The last minicomputers were IBM's AS/400 line, renamed to System i, then merged with the Power Systems. IBM's victory over the min...