17 Oct
2008
17 Oct
'08
6:53 a.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
Another fundamental flaw that we've been very
merciful about, is that all
PUBLIC definitions would only include those machines that were in such
massive production that it was the first one that that writer was
cognizant of. But the REAL first one was the prototype in my uncle's
basement that never went into production, and that nobody knows about.
Spot-on. Inventions normally stem from someone hacking away in a corner; it
takes marketing and a fair amount of polishing to make a product and bring it
to peoples' attention, but the way I see it the hacked prototype still does
what it does 'first'.
Oh, you meant a computer with a screen showing
"point addressable"
pixels!
Heh. Define 'point' of course - but even a point on a colour CRT is made from
three entities, so why can a 'point' not also be a more complicated pattern
(such as a character cell)? Murky waters indeed.
cheers
Jules