Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 1999 15:35:11 +0100 | From | Marcin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: fork bomb:the come back |
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Stephen Frost wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > > > Philip Blundell wrote: > > > > > > >> > (Guess what: only a minority of > > > >> > computers is and allways will be on the internet!) > > > >> > > > >> Does anybody still believe that? I think it's pretty clear we're hea > > > >ding in > > > >> precisely the opposite direction. > > > > > > > >One word: embedded systems. > > > > > > Embedded systems are increasingly Internet-connected as well. > > > > Concrete Examples? (NO don't tell me about the refrigerator, which was just > > a demo.) > > There was a Coke machine at a university somewhere that would tell you > how many cans and whatnot were left at one point or another, I seem to recall. > Yes, over the internet (Or that may have been arpanet, not sure. :) ).
Maybe or maybe not. Still I think the not connected will always be in the overwhelming majority.
--Marcin
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