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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I know. I should clarify that all this was in the context of some imagined future sustainable computing with decentralized production and a bit of luddism.

As in "how would we live in spacefaring future if the PCs we could have were all comparable to Amiga 500".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

that's definitely an interesting thought, i would figure it's probably the most primitive source of communication, I.E. directly managed serial, or probably ethernet, which has an extremely broad range of applications, and standards, from anything from coaxial cables and ring networks, to twisted pair serialized transmission and switched tree networks.