25 Sep
2000
25 Sep
'00
10:54 a.m.
From: Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org>
You're in good company:
Keep in mind I had little touch with leadign edge tech back
in 70/71 when I made my school choices. I was fixing tube
based equippment mostly and an IC was rather crude stuff.
"There is no reason for any individual to have a
computer in their
home."
-- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society
Convention, 1977
In one sense he was right but the desktop and killer apps
like spreadsheets and user friendly databases were phase
one and new. It took more than that to get the kitchen
computer real. The internet or more correctly the ubiqious
communications it represents was phase two.
difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple;
and the beauty of VMS
is that it's all there.
-- Ken Olsen, president of DEC, DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984
Around the same time I got a Unix the unsystem teeshirt. UNIX in
a no symbol (red slashed circle). By time it was getting somewhat
worn AT&T made unix a DOD standard and Ultrix was hot soon after.
Allison