One thing between 1960s Sutherland and 1990s Looking Glass he left out I think was column-oriented databases (70s and 80s).
That might have been important for the performance aspects that drove the resurgence in ECS, though I know he's focused more in this talk on how ECS also improves the structure for understanding and implementing complex systems: in the 70s and early 80s memory latency probably hadn't begun diverging from instruction rate to such an extreme degree, but in disks it was always a big issue.
Also would like to hear more about Thinglab and if it had some good stuff to it.
That might have been important for the performance aspects that drove the resurgence in ECS, though I know he's focused more in this talk on how ECS also improves the structure for understanding and implementing complex systems: in the 70s and early 80s memory latency probably hadn't begun diverging from instruction rate to such an extreme degree, but in disks it was always a big issue.
Also would like to hear more about Thinglab and if it had some good stuff to it.