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Subject:Re: Cloud? Firewall? Huh? From:Tracey May <traceym -at- SPEEDO -dot- PENRIL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:14:19 PST
>>I laugh when I envision a *cloud* of computers).
>>Otherwise, I'd assume some writer was trying to be cute and failed miserably.
The only "cloud" I'm familiar with is the one that graphically represents a
WAN connection made over a dial-up line, as opposed to a direct, subscriber
line. The dial-up connection is physically different each time it's made and
can't truly be represented by a line; hence, the cloud. I've never seen the
connected computers referred to as "clouds" of computers, though.
Tracey
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