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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (567373)5/22/2010 1:00:01 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1576053
 
"The formal name being given to something is not the same as the begining of that thing."

Ok, let us see. The name was different, the protocols were different, the organization was different, in fact, virtually everything but a handful of services that, with the exception of email, are rarely used, is different. Yet, according to you, they are the same.

Ok, I suppose.

"Yes but it still would have been over the internet."

Why? Why wouldn't it have been over AOL, Compuserve or any of a number of other competing networks? Did it have anything to do with the government picking a winner?
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