Comment by rpcope1

It's always amazing to me to see all the hype around containerization and build once, run anywhere, and a lot of the tech trends happening now and realize that we've been reinventing the wheel, since products like AS/400 (a.k.a System/38 a.k.a iSeries) have been doing it since before PCs were ever a thing. It's perhaps even more funny when the reimplementation is inferior to the original product (which seems to happen with some level of regularity). It's a shame mid-range IBM iron is both expensive and sort of vendor-locked as it's really often a rather nice system to build for; system/38 really was revolutionary and really has influence more than I think we often give it credit for.