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Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: ma...
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 19:18
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On 2018-08-03, JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 06:02:12 -0400, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2018-08-02, ma...@mail.com <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.)
>>> 
>>> Most of the people on FB make the "eternal September" crowd look like
>>> intellectual giants.
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>>Look at the accusation that the Russians meddled in the election by posting
>>bogus stuff on Favebook. Who the heck gets their political information from
>>FB??? If there are many people doing this we have a lot more problems than
>>just Russians!
>
> Apparently large numbers of people get their info only from FB.


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