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Re:Vscode.dev by pjmlp on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:42PM (#28934428)
That is how many of us used to work on UNIX and similar timesharing OSes.

The cloud + browser is back to the future.

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Re:Vscode.dev by noizejoy on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:56PM (#28935505)
Brings back sweet memories of Multics[0], which predated Unix by quite a bit:

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics

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Re:Vscode.dev by pjmlp on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:32PM (#28936081)
My first experience with such setup was the DG/UX at the university campus, where we had a mix of classical green/ambar phosphor terminals, and a couple of X-Windows thin clients from IBM to connect to it.

Regarding Multics, it was a failure only for Bell Labs themselves, as the project kept going and had still a couple of years for itself.

https://multicians.org/myths.html

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Re:Vscode.dev by Zababa on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:58PM (#28934643)
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the insight.
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