>what low-profile industry giants like Cisco and Oracle have been doing for a whole generation.
It's more than a generation; IBM literally provided computers that ran the holocaust.
It's more than a generation; IBM literally provided computers that ran the holocaust.
This was an excellently researched book - the 2012 edition has a lot of additional documentation that really highlighted the level of support IBM threw behind the railway logistics planning.
IBM literally provided punch card record keeping equipment. IBM literally didn't provide computers. Computers literally didn't exist.
Computer: 1. One who computes; a calculator, reckoner; spec. a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. [OED, 1923]
Punch cards held tables of records, and the unit record equipment were nowhere close to the modern meaning of ‘computer’. (The human computers were probably Turing-complete, though.)