On 20/06/10 22:15, Malcolm Cadman wrote: > Yet COBOL is not the next great thing ... :-) > Rather, an old thing. Yes, you missed my point. TNGT said that Cobol was dead. The actual situation is that TNGT is dead, and COBOL lives on.
> As you say laptops have succeeded desktops, and netbooks have succeeded > laptops. Nope, I said nothing like that. I said that the PC has all of these form factors. That there are literally millions of them - like there were COBOL programs - so TNGT is going to do away with all the existing hardware just like a previous TNGT was going to kill off all those applications on all those servers running COBOL. > So, iPad like devices will succeed all of the above, and we will all be > using them as they get more capable. Nope. iPad like devices may catch on - they didn't when they were called Tablet PCs way back. I admit the technology wasn't as advanced and mobile phones hardy even existed then. However, in the long run, I predict, that there will be iPad like devices and maybe lots of them, but the PC - in all it's guises - will still be dominant. After all, the iPad has been here before, remember this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ ? There were even Compaq (I think) versions from before 2000. > Anyway, I still awaiting your dream ideas for the QL21 ... :-) If I had any, then we'd end up with a Linux based Laptop running QPC! Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
