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		liontwist on Dec 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systems ideas that sound good but almost never wor... > Most of the first 25 years of computer science was figuring out how to make things work asynchronously This is not true. Computers focused on single threaded designs before getting thrown into parallelism (need parallelism to run into dining philosopher problems).

mrkeen on Dec 31, 2024 [–]

I'm not sure what counts as the "first 25 years", but Dining Philosophers is from 1965.

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