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   Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 11:37:46 JST Nate Cull

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   • DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
   • theruran 🌐🏴

   @theruran @djsundog

   Cheap snark aside, what I think happened is:

   Lots of cool new innovation happened in the 1980s-1990s (mostly around reinventing everything that mainframes had already done for decades, but on small cheap affordable systems by and for people who'd never used or programmed mainframes)

   But the innovation itself meant the only way of making those systems talk to each other was through APIs invented in the 1960s:

   * Unix's hierarchical filesystem
   * TCP/IP's packets and streams

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     Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 11:37:47 JST Nate Cull

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     • DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
     • theruran 🌐🏴

     @theruran @djsundog

     (The computer industry is extremely not good at either sitting down or having a think, so I don't expect that any reflection on "just what happened to objects anyway, were we telling complete porkies all through the '90s? Are we the baddies?" will happen. But I'd like it to.)

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     Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 11:37:48 JST Nate Cull

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     • DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab
     • theruran 🌐🏴

     @theruran @djsundog

     We COULD have had computers by now that replaced the concept of "file" with something like "object"....

     ... if it wasn't that the concept of "object" is so massively ambiguous and extremely tightly bound to every tiny little detail of the machine hardware, that we literally can't.

     Which is hilarious because objects were intended to be LOOSELY bound to implementation details, but the exact opposite happened.

     I want the computer industry to sit and have a think about that.

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     theruran 🌐🏴 (theruran@hackers.town)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 11:37:54 JST theruran 🌐🏴

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     • DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

     @djsundog

     The influence of ideas from the late 1960s and early 1970s is now so pervasive that almost nobody can imagine anything else, and the best ideas from the following generation are mostly forgotten.

     :arthurfist:

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     DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 11:37:55 JST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

     Author of this article sounds like some of us on here

     Why the end of Optane is bad news for all IT

     https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/optane_intel_cancellation/