Hi. Meant complete software application systems, but, of course, it is eventually powered by language compilers
Regards, Tarek Hoteit AI Consultant, PhD +1 360-838-3675 > On Apr 27, 2024, at 10:39, Wayne S <wayne.su...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > When you say “software drove hardware sales” do you mean complete software > application systems or do you mean compilers available for the hardware so > the software teams had variety in what they could program? > Up to the ‘90’s, companies had big, expensive hardware and little to no > canned software applications so companies also had relatively cheaper > software developers to make custom programs. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 27, 2024, at 10:23, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >> wrote: >> >> I came across this paragraph from the July 1981 Popular Science magazine >> edition in the article titled “Compute power - pro models at almost >> home-unit prices.” >> >> “ ‘Personal-computer buffs may buy a machine, bring it home, and then spend >> the rest of their time looking for things it can do’, said …. ‘In business, >> it’s the other way around. Here you know the job, you have to find a machine >> that will do it. More precisely, you have to find software that will do the >> job. Finding a computer to use the software you’ve selected becomes >> secondary.”. >> >> Do you guys* think that software drove hardware sales rather than the other >> way around for businesses in the early days? I recall that computer hardware >> salespeople would be knocking on businesses office doors rather than >> software salesmen. Just seeking your opinion now that we are far ahead from >> 1981. >> >> (*I do wish we have female gender engaged in the classic computing >> discussions threads as well. Maybe there is.) >> >> Regards, >> Tarek Hoteit >> AI Consultant, PhD >> +1 360-838-3675 >>
