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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   "Mike Dworetsky"  wrote:   
      
   >In the early 1980s a Niven-Pournell novel (King David's Spaceship) had   
   >Imperial naval officers walking around a city on a newly rediscovered "lost"   
   >colony planet, using wireless notebooks for information and communication,   
   >which sounded a lot like tablets, iPads or iPhones.   
      
   I thought that KDS was just Pournelle.  But I'm too lazy to look it   
   up.   
      
   The Niven/Pournelle "Mote in God's Eye" has people wandering around   
   recording stuff on tablets or PDAs with both local storage and   
   networked into the ship's computing resources.  But Mote is getting   
   fairly close to the present.  Wasn't it about that time that TCP/IP   
   was being designed?   
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