11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:19 p.m.
Josh Dersch 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*.
Peace... Sridhar
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.