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Virtuality versus transprency -- trying to locate a quote about the difference
by Thomas Haigh 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Hello SIGCIS, I am trying to locate a quote I remember reading circa 1998. It is something along the lines of "Something virtual isn't really there but looks as if it is. Something transparent is really there but looks as if it isn't." That is of course the computer science sense of transparency as making the work of software invisible a user or process - for example how the network stack shields applications from whatever network media the data is travelling over to present the illusion of a connection. Google is not helping me. Does anybody know the source and correct wording? Thanks, Tom

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