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Warp wrote:
> You should understand marketing speech. Everything is new when the
> market decides it's new.
Well, parallel processing *did* take off 20 years ago. Except that each
process served one transaction. :-) (Think Google, Amazon, etc.)
> I laughed some years ago when they introduced a really revolutionary and
> innovative new concept: Dumb terminals. Of course the marketing speech didn't
> say that dumb terminals have existed for something like 30 years
30? What's a card punch other than a dumb terminal? :-) Dumb terminals have
been around *way* longer than 30 years. Dumb *graphics* terminals 30 years
ago, perhaps. :-)
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Understanding the structure of the universe
via religion is like understanding the
structure of computers via Tron.
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