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Thanks for the insight.

In your point of view, on top of the current hardware infrastructure, how do we build a decentralized network operating system (contrary to the old centralized timesharing system)?

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Take a look at the Internet itself -- and then take a look at Dave Reed's 1978 PhD thesis at MIT (can be found via the CSAIL website) -- we used many of these ideas in the Croquet project

Thanks Alan, will dive in

http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/specpub.php?id=773

http://worrydream.com/refs/Smith%20-%20Croquet%20-%20A%20Col...

Alan, is this the right direction we are looking at?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt

I think you can find much of what is worth knowing about these projects starting there.

Now we feel like Steve Jobs visiting PARC. :-)

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