18 Jun
2004
18 Jun
'04
1:25 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: List charter mods & headcount... ;-)
Welcome to large scale integration, most cards have one main chip in them
anymore and nothing else. Input goes in one side, "magic happens", then you
get your output. You don't have to know much about a complex car to drive
one (gas goes in here, oil in there, that's about it), why should computing
be different to the vast majority of computer users.
> It makes me realise that old Isaac Asimov was not
too far off the mark
with
his visions of
a future when no-one understood how the machines worked .
This is a separate issue, but it worries me too. Just about everyone
these days hasn't a clue as to how anything actually works :-(.
-tony