Re: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?)

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> ARJ> Whereas computing technology *here* concentrated on making fast serial
> ARJ> computers, *there* the aim was to produce small, low-power devices that
> ARJ> could easily be networked parallelised.
>
> KG> It's more than just that: in IB, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, von
> KG> Neumann and Turing lived good long lives owing to there being no Manhattan
> KG> project *there*
>
> Ok, why the stars around "here" and "there"?  Is this a formal
> convention when discussing IB?
Yeah. "*here*" means OTL (original time line) and "*there*" means ATL
(alternate time line). It's one of those IB-ism that becomes subconsciously
used by members of Lla Societad dill Bethisad[1].

K.

[1] http://ib.frath.net/w/The_List