From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@justintime.com)
Date: Wed Nov 18 1998 - 17:25:55 MST
Spike Jones wrote:
> primes may not turn everyone on. what if distributed task background
> computing became popular. what else could you think of to use all
> that idle computer time? spike
Ever since reading Vernor Vinge's "True Names" I've thought a distributed
artificial intelligence would be one of the neatest things one could do
with distributed computing (the "Mailman" from the aforementioned story
was a distributed AI that got its name because it answered questions
slowly, as if by post).
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