cctalk/cctech

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 08:59:35AM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Me too. I suspect there is a number of people here, who not quite belong to any other place. I am not a great enthusiast of modern computer technology, for example. Other than a fact that I have an equivalent of 1990-ties supercomputer at a hand's reach, mostly thanks to users making pitiful choices requiring more and more power, to run those Mac and PC emulators in Javascript. Not to mention the very affordable used _portable_ (yikes!) supercomputers or as of recently _pocket_ (yay!!) supercomputers (alas, almost unusable because of stupid HW choices offering no security, but I am not sure if it was possible to make better choices). Limiting discussion to only strict cc-related topics will hugely deprive everybody, IMHO. This list should not be only a talk of museum keepers, but in my opinion it should be used to learn from the past and maybe try to do better in a future (if not for learning, I see no purpose to have a museum of any kind). Having a look at past provides me with interesting insights (try asking a casual user about his/her thoughts on pocket supercomputers, and have sad laugh). Speaking of long threads, there was a four or six weeks long thread about terminals, most of which (if not all) I will never be able to touch and so I skipped it all (it was interesting, but I have a ton of things to be read and thus I have to be very selective). No complaints however. Maybe I will one day undust those from my archives. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **