I am a 3278 fanboy, but I have to admit PLATO is absolutely wonderful. The same applies to the underlying CDC systems and their graphical vector-based operator consoles.
It's interesting that, when you are so much ahead of your time, you end up as a kind of failure, without generating other generations downstream because, even though you were far ahead of everyone else, you were so far nobody would be able to follow your steps.
May be a myth as clarified somewhere else, it is important to run unix not Multics in pdp not mainframe. You do not simplify and dumb down, you cannot spread.
And Apple/Atari/… dominates and linux not unix …
To spread …
Buddhism says to be like this in its 5 cycles as well.
It's interesting that, when you are so much ahead of your time, you end up as a kind of failure, without generating other generations downstream because, even though you were far ahead of everyone else, you were so far nobody would be able to follow your steps.