On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Bernie Cosell wrote:
But back to amazing: 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.
I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment, the hardware is
what is *amazing* about computing. From *paper tape* (teletype)
to terabyte hard drives, just to pick one at random, I'd say IS
truly amazing. From the "dot" formatting commands of WordStar to
formatting in Word 2003, is impressive, but I am not blown over
by it. :) It may be because I'm *hardware* oriented, but
still...
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