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From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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Sun JavaOS and the Network Computer: A Platform Bet That Missed the Market

Sun’s JavaOS and JavaStation tried to replace fat PCs with centrally managed network computers running Java applications, but bandwidth, application maturity, peripherals, and PC economics moved faster than the thin-client vision.

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