25 Jan
2012
25 Jan
'12
9:16 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 emu at e-bbes.com wrote:
Looking at PCs, they will have in few year many
terrabytes of
diskspace to boot win 10/11,
And, NEED all of that plus multi-THz processor speed to run the text
editor (at ALMOST as fast as a 2MHz Z80). Whether or not you WANT it,
your grocery list will contain full-motion sound animations. As a "favor
to you", any mention of frozen vegetables will automatically splice in a
Gree Giant commercial and the latest pop-sci "news" about what is best for
you, and send a copy of your menu to the "server"s at your HMO and
MiniTrue,MiniLuv. and MiniPlenty.
In "Hyperland", Douglas Adams failed to realize the extent of the
insidious incursions of Sirius Cybernetics Corp.
BUT, it is unreasonable to compare the THz MegaCore machine to the 2MHz
Z80, "because it does so much more for you!"
but effectively, all the data is in the
cloud. So if you flip the switch, you boot something which interprets
the data you're getting from the internet and send it back, while your
data is located in a big data center somewhere else.
Didn't we call them terminals back then?
;-)
. . . and then "thin client"s.
NOW, "BLOATED clients"
"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!" (with RPP!)
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com