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Lamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
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A short clip from an ACM and Computer History Museum interview in which Leslie Lamport discusses writing his paper on time, clocks and the ordering of events. He explains its link to special relativity.
HN cites it as a primary source for Lamport's relativity inspiration behind logical clocks in distributed systems threads.
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