ideal computer (aka "reset button")

[Sam Harbaugh <harbaugh@ACUSYS.COM>]

Tuishimi <tuishimi@AOL.COM> writes

>If this were an ideal world, we'd all be
>using MACs or
>NeXT computers.  :)

My annual "reset button" posting:

These are not "ideal" computers because they have a reset button.  Future
scientists, excavating the waste dumps will mark the disappearance of the
reset button as being of equal significance to man first walking upright.
They will say "At that moment man first had complete software control of the
hardware which launched the era of massive deployment of embedded,
unattended computers" (all connected via internet of course :-).

Its not so far off I think.  Will the general public put up with having to
call a neighbor to go inside their house to push the reset button so that
they can regain control of household devices and access information via
internet from the beaches of Waikaki?

Software weenies unite - Pressure silicon valley to give us COMPLETE control.

What does this have to do with Ada you ask.  I'll mention that Ada
translated to Java byte code, downloaded via internet to these computers
with no reset button yields a very powerful, global, distributed computing
and information network [but you knew that :-)  ]

sam harbaugh harbaugh@acusys.com