Question about "Distributed" in the DFT name.

[Grant Taylor]

On 11/18/19 11:24 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> not really, all it meant was there was some intelligence at the terminal 
> it wasn't capable of any sort of user-programmable computation

Okay.

Sounds like distributed is just a term collision then.  Thank you for 
the clarification.

> that changed pretty quickly with the wide adoption of the IBM PC
> 
> I came across a document recently that showed 
> what a mess IBM had on their hands in 1984 
> 
> http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/sna/GC30-3085-3_Distributed_Office_Support_System_General_Information_Oct1984.pdf 




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