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Rochustoday at 9:17 AM1 replyview on HN

Cool; though a few facts on your landing page might need some reconsideration. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879311.

> something like a small computer of its own

Which corresponds pretty well with the Simula I concept, published 1966 in the Communications of the ACM. A Simula event notice (time, process) in the sequencing set is just a message step(process, time) in a priority mailbox; the two are the same mathematical object, making Simula's discrete-event active processes and Kay's message-passing active objects trivially isomorphic.


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jdw64today at 9:32 AM

thanks! I checked the link and there are indeed quite a few inaccuracies in the initial part. I'll go through it and make corrections.

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