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Article #625362Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 01:34
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 01:34
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On 8/3/2018 1:19 PM, JimP wrote: > 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. > In the time frame when BAH was still posting to <a.f.c.>, she would take seriously the questions and the feigned difficulties that trolls posted... and BAH tried to give correct answers and solve those feigned problems. In effect, this was only "feeding the trolls". -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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