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Article #625202Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:08
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:08
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On 2018-08-02, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:51:44 -0400 > Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote: > >> It may actually be the same thing, an expectation of centralized >> computers taking care of everyone, instead of a whole lot of computers. > > That is certainly the picture that appears in every science fiction > mention of computers pretty much right up until reality did something > different. And now, under reality v2.0, the wheel is coming around again. We're going back to centralized computers taking care of everyone (FSVO "care"). There are still lots of computers everywhere, but they're just being used as terminals. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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