On 03/08/2016 13:36, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
There he comes waddling in… Your cute-n-cudly strawman!!
A more realistic analogy would be phones
The cellphones we use today often crash
The first nokia I used never crashed but could still run out of battery
And the round-dial landlines of 30 years ago had not even that problem
1986? Yeah, we had a phone from then (granted, I don't remember much
of 1986, but we had the same handsets in the 1990s), and it could run
out of battery and lose its phone book.
He said landlines. A typical handset would have no battery as it's
powered from the line. And does not have need a memory to function. Nor
would it suffer from lack of signal. Or credit (if you'd paid the last
bill). Or get lost (as it's tethered to the socket).
Very clunky technology but it was solid! It only did one thing but it
did it incredibly well.
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