I think when commodity NAS arrived and home users had some expectations of reliable storage at home, combined with ubiquitous cloud storage, to me at least, centrally managed systems became less interesting. Once I realised I didn't run CPU intensive code, the benefit was managed reliable filestore, and access to other people's data.
What I'm left with is old timer regret for time passing. The ozone rich, oily smell of a well managed machine room. A display of lights showing intensity of work on a CPU. Tapes stuttering. Well.. romance is fine. We got work to do old timer.
I think when commodity NAS arrived and home users had some expectations of reliable storage at home, combined with ubiquitous cloud storage, to me at least, centrally managed systems became less interesting. Once I realised I didn't run CPU intensive code, the benefit was managed reliable filestore, and access to other people's data.
What I'm left with is old timer regret for time passing. The ozone rich, oily smell of a well managed machine room. A display of lights showing intensity of work on a CPU. Tapes stuttering. Well.. romance is fine. We got work to do old timer.