16 Nov
1997
16 Nov
'97
12:43 p.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
The saying used to be that if it was on the shelf, it was obsolete.
Nowadays, if it's being being prototyped, it's obsolete.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Possibly (out for MUCH revision...) is the
definition "Any computer
which has aged sufficently to be considered "outdated" by the computer
market
The problem is that the computer market regards anything that's currently
being sold as "outdated". I know managers refusing to buy DEC Alpha's
because the Intel Merced chip is supposed to be available in a couple
of years - and the first Merced's will be only a bit slower than today's
currently available Alpha's. Talk about being blown away by vapor...