On Jun 28, 2016, at 15:21, Rich Morin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Phoenix Presence establishes a synthetic clock ...

Synchronicity!  Just after I posted the last note, this came across
my screen:

  The Tyranny of the Clock
  Subject: Remarks for the Turing Celebration
  Date: June 16, 2012
  From: Ivan Sutherland

  http://worrydream.com/refs/Sutherland%20-%20Tyranny%20of%20the%20Clock.pdf

The eventually-consistent approach taken by Phoenix Presence lives
somewhere between the unclocked approach taken by Erlang and Sutherland
and the clocked approach taken in most digital hardware.

-r

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