Hi Bernie n All,
On Saturday 16 September 2006 15:21, Bernie Cosell Inscribed Thus:
> On 14 Sep 2006 at 17:28, Hugh Gundersen wrote:
> > You know what guys,,,,, Given all the bad press and Crap about
> > Windows OS when you really think about the OS (any of them from Win
> > 1 to XP pro) and the associated programs like word, excel,
> > powerpoint, frontpage etc. arn't they just amazing what they can
> > do?
>
> Speaking as the resident devil's advocate hereabouts...
> The thing I find amazing isn't the software,
> which as I say is [to my view] barely that much better than some of
> the stuff I was using 30rs ago, but the *hardware*. The idea of
> terabyte hard drives and gigabit memories is mindblowing; that, and
> the advances in CPU power and display technology [both the displays
> and the video cards that drive them] and communication speeds, etc,
> IMO, is hugely more responsible for the "advances" than anything
> really "amazing" in the software realm.
>
> /Bernie\
I wholly agree with you Bernie ! Coming, like you, from an era where
huge rooms were occupied by the hardware just to store and process
relatively small amounts of data, compared to today is nothing short of
mind boggling !! I wonder what the next 30 years is going to produce ?
Apart from further reductions in size. Maybe faster than light could
be around the corner !!
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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