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"Obviously, the embryonic web tried to solve this problem. The original solution was to introduce threading" Are we calling 1970's mainframes "the embryonic we

by bsaul 3y ago

"Obviously, the embryonic web tried to solve this problem. The original solution was to introduce threading" Are we calling 1970's mainframes "the embryonic web" now ?

immibis 3y ago
Well, apparently they did consist of a lot of tangled threads...
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
  They’re beautiful: https://www.embecosm.com/app/uploads/Cray_1_Wiring.jpg https://www.embecosm.com/app/uploads/Cray_1_Wiring.jpg
  - littlestymaar 3y ago
    Spiders would be proud of the people who did this. They definitely deserve to be called “web”.
mike_hearn 3y ago
That sentence is super confusing. The web has never supported multi-threading.