On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:36, Greg Twyford wrote: > Great days indeed. What you could do at home with a 486 and a 14.4kbps > connection was just about as useful as what we do now with our vastly > enhanced resources.
Indeed - and make that a 68000 processor (16 MHz) and a 2400 baud modem - honestly anything regarding *productivity* that is not tied to multimedia could be done then just the same as now. The software industry is indulging in a gross waste of resources completely unheard of in any other industry - they keep masking their inefficiency and incompetence and lack of innovation with ever more powerful hardware instead of using this increased power to solve more problems (like voice recognition, image recognition, AI expert systems etc.) I often wonder what went wrong some 10-15 years ago where suddenly software innovation and engineering skills grinded into a halt, and I do believe that Microsoft has a great deal to do with it. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
