8 May
2005
8 May
'05
11:12 p.m.
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Jay West wrote:
different. However, we can talk about this when
PC's are no longer the
concept of the common computer. That will be a long long time most likely.
My own personal prediction is that (currently) modern PC's won't be classic
in our lifetimes.
I think you're wrong. Look at how far we've come and how fast.
1950 -> 1960 Major leaps in computing technology
1960 -> 1970 Much change, but not as much as the previous decade
1970 -> 1980 Everything gets smaller, cheaper, and on a single chip
1980 -> 1990 Refinement of what came out in the 1970s
1990 -> 2000 PC dreck
The timeline is getting compressed. Stuff that took 10-20 years to be
considered "ancient" or even "retro" is now only taking 5-10.
To that end, I was just thinking the other day that I better stash away a
generic crap 386 clone before I stop coming across them. We'll need
samples to demonstrate to people 20-30 years now the low-point of
computing in our more recent era ;)
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