Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: ma...
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 21:15

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On 2018-08-02, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> 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.
>

Is Facebook the present reality of Eternal September (Not the site, the present 
reality of the mob of people who would discover the Internet in September.)


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