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Article #625206Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:16
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:16
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<ma...@mail.com> wrote: > 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.) > > Facebook is apparently losing users now, as young people move on to other platforms. -- Pete
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