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(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday January 23 2017, @01:37PM
Although they still seem to think there would even be a "main" computer
That's not particularly unbelievable. Computing swings between distributed and centralised. Both have advantages and disadvantages. In NextGen, they have PADDs that have some processing ability (and a few times even show that combadges have a lot of processing power), but there's a big advantage to having a big pile of compute and storage resources in the same location, as long as the latency to the display device is sufficiently low and the bandwidth is high enough. In something as small as The Enterprise, the latency wouldn't be an issue and the bandwidth would be more than adequate, so there's little incentive to have a load of small computers for anything other than emergency backup and disconnected operation.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 23 2017, @08:01PM
I would think they would learn the benefits of distributed computing throughout the ship. Oh, but then face a patent lawsuit from the Borg.
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