Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: Peter Flass
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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