11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:53 p.m.
On Jun 11, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
The world we live in today *is* great. But it wouldn't be great
without all the invisible *large* **powerful** machines running off
in the background somewhere doing a lot of heavy lifting.
It's the people who predicted everything would be obsolete except
the PC were *wrong*.
Yup. And that includes the people who assert that everything IS
CURRENTLY obsolete except the PC. It seems their idea of viability
is defined as "I can buy it at WalMart". Pretty entertaining for the
rest of us.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Most likely someone at DEC foresaw that the rise of
the killer
micros
was going to be as bad as it was, and managed to convince a few
people
that IBM PC-compatibles and their consumer OSes were the future
for all.
I seriously hope that this is not true, and that nobody foresaw
computing as it exists today.
Yeah, what a horrible world we live in --
affordable, powerful
hardware capable of running a wide variety of free, powerful, and
useful operating systems and software and emulating every vintage
system under the sun. A world -wide-network making the collecting
and maintainance of our hobby projects possible. Digital watches.