3 ) Perhaps there is some kind of " economy of scale " that can come from serializing work that would otherwise ( in a larger team ) be parallel, or bringing all aspects ( e . g . design and programming ) into the same brain : that is, there is now no interprocess communication or delay waiting for someone else to acknowledge something, nor is there repetition of:
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Various distributed applications at NCSS pioneered early implementations of teleconferencing, inter-user messaging, client / server database processing ( before commercial SQL systems existed ), and file sharing, both on a single machine and between machines . ( An interprocess communication interface, for example, was implemented providing transparent read / write access between remote applications & ndash; using normal file system I / O, analogous to a UNIX pipe.
