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From: szabo%sequent.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Nick Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Age of the Hand Held
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Date: 10 Dec 90 07:33:44 GMT
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The data requirements of a team of people are often very complex.  
*Somebody* has to deal with that complexity.  It is either centralized in 
the factory that makes the computer (as in the Mac), or centralized in
the system administrator of the team.  The latter case is better when
the computer maker cannot anticipate all the needs of the team, and 
the team is forced to jump into the thicket to create an environment
suitable for its work.

Also, nobody has satisfactorilly solved the problem of making a network
of computers easy to use.  Thus, any significantly large team that must
communicate data needs local system administration.

Nick Szabo