12 Feb
2013
12 Feb
'13
7:56 a.m.
On 2/12/2013 8:28 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
A big part of the reason IMO for the excitement in the
earlier years of
computing technology was that models were varying and unique, whereas today
they are uniform and ubiquitous. There's not much today that differentiates
computers from the desktop machine on up to super computers except for the
scale. "Back then" computers used a variety of different processors and had
different models had strong points to them, storage technology was
different, etc.
Not to say that modern day computing technology isn't impressive. But we
have since at least the last decade or two entered an era of incremental
changes rather than radical ones.
Nah. The same as before, the SUITS still have the power. The average
person has the illusion of personal computing. Very little can be done
with typical computer, all development is still done on BIGGER machines.
The other Ben.