SulphurCrested

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   by SulphurCrested 6y ago

   Why, then, does it have a definite article? One does not catch a flight to "the New York". (Some place names in English do have "the", but then it is capitalised, for example "The Pines" or "The Hague&quot
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   by SulphurCrested 6y ago

   Originally, an "internet" was a network which linked together other smaller networks, for example two university campuses which each had their own, incompatible, in-campus networking technologies. You might have University U1 runn
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   by SulphurCrested 6y ago

   I'd add to that list: - At the time Olsen made that statement VMS had shareable libraries (DLLs), and none of the several Unixes I used did. The system administrator had to manually enable sharing of their code pages between processes
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   by SulphurCrested 6y ago

   I ran across this paper on the subject a couple of months ago: https://www.sigcis.org/files/Goodwin_paper.pdf As you'd expect for the failure of such a large company, it wasn't just one thing that went wrong.