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Couldn't people just buy mainframes from the same manufacturer and connect them before the arpanet?

I don't understand what they mean by mainframes were stand alone. You left out the a very important restriction of that claim: "In the mid-1960s, mainframe computers in research organizations ...
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Couldn't people just buy mainframes from the same manufacturer and connect them before the arpanet?

Why go through all that to help scientists share their findings when they can just buy mainframes from the same manufacturer and connect them? That's essentially the whole problem right there -- they ...
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