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Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: JimP
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 18:19
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On 2 Aug 2018 21:15:42 GMT, 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.)

Thats my impression, along with a number of trolls and morons who
believe the trolls are posting facts.
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Subject: Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 13:19:42 -0500
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