alt Hacker NewsMy understanding is even in the early 2000s it was pretty much just firmware versus desktop software with a small niche for Mac developers.
Edit: my point was not that specialized software applications didn’t exist. It was that people were expected to be able to jump from stack to stack when they change roles in a way that has disappeared from modern job applications.
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swatcoder • last Thursday at 7:21 PM
Pretty much.
Well, and mainframes. And trading and financial systems. And numerical/scientific computing. And network services. And web sites and e-commerce. And flash, java applets, and browser plugins. And control systems. And operating systems and tooling. And cell phone applications. And games. And video/image/audio/music processing. etc etc
Oh, wait... maybe not!
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Plenty of server software being developed in the early 2000s. (Though minicomputers were mostly off the scene by then.)