On 10/5/19 2:14 PM, Always Learning wrote:
Technically [the new automobile] was never an "upgrade" but a brand new and 
alternative
system.
...
The automobile was originally billed in many areas as the 'horseless carriage,' an upgrade.
Luxury. Try running on a 32k single processor computer, started with
booting the card reader which read cards that booted from a tape.

...

Frontpanel, 256 words (12-bit words), and paper tape.  But I also never had that straight-8 on the net, either, but, via uucp, I did have the T6K on Usenet.


No comparison between 50+ years ago with this constantly developing and
fascinating New World. However KISS remains valid. If it works smoothly,
don't mess it up.


But that's the point; the previous solution didn't work as smoothly for all use cases as one might want to believe.

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