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The links never go bad because you should never delete data. Also old versions are kept forever.


How do you reconcile this with the reality of systems breaking?

To make it work then you just can't rule out by fiat a hard-disk breakage as one of the simplest adversarial conditions to the model.


Presumably by replicating extensively? How this was supposed to work in 1960 tech (and storage prices), I have no idea.

Xanadu is full of missing pieces like this one. There is a reason it never took off.




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