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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Musings on the future of computing... (REPOST)
Message-ID: <DI812OL@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 03:59:31 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.165031.14655@world.std.com>
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In article <1991Feb6.165031.14655@world.std.com>, bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
> At one extreme are projects such as Plan 9 at Bell Labs which utilizes
> essentially X-terminals (although they don't run X, but devices
> capable of running little else but a window system) and a system of
> servers (compute, file, etc.)

No, the GNOT terminals in Plan 9 *are* almost diskless workstations,
and can do work locally. But because they're diskless they don't need
to be maintained and administered.
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