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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Age of the Hand Held
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Date: 29 Nov 90 17:32:32 GMT
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Bob Gautier writes:

> But we are also beginning to see the introduction of very widespread and
> fast digital communications, which I think will in the end remove the
> necessity for local computation.

We've heard this one before.

The operations performed on data are increasingly extensive, local
computation increasingly capable of doing it, and the volume of data
is pushing increasingly hard on the available bandwidth.

Rather than a pendulum swing back away from local computing, I consider
the X terminal an abberation caused by the poor factoring of computation
and bandwidth requirements in the X protocol.

Peter da Silva