On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 08:04:01AM -0600, Dave Jones wrote: > ...."But I wonder, are we using all that computation effectively to > make as much difference as our forebears did after the leap from > pencil and paper to the 7090?" > > IMHO, no. > DJ
Of course we do. Try to animate an icon using just pen and paper, like computer users had to do decades ago. They lacked proper graphics, they had to draw icons in their notebooks. Still not convinced? Okay, so try animating your icon with pen&paper every 30 seconds. -- 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:[email protected] ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
