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by rovolo 1434 days ago
> Byzantium would disagree with your analysis...except it doesn't exist anymore because it couldn't solve the problem.

Leslie Lamport commenting on the 1982 paper. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/byzanti...

> There is a problem in distributed computing that is sometimes called the Chinese Generals Problem ... the original title of this paper was The Albanian Generals Problem ... The obviously more appropriate Byzantine generals then occurred to me.