From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad19,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad19,public X-Google-Thread: 11390f,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 110df7,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid110df7,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Edwards Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects Date: 2000/03/29 Message-ID: <38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 603905144 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <0hHhOB6JC0shHWoiFENqSKhFoJol@4ax.com> <38e2abb2.13703965@news.hannover.sgh-net.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@bctel.net X-Trace: news.bc.tac.net 954346052 207.194.27.33 (Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:07:32 PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Ted_E@bc.sympatico.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:07:32 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.asm,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.basic Date: 2000-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: When making predictions of the future of computing, especially on a time frame greater than a few months, it is wise to consider a quote appearing in the sig of a young fellow learning to weld. " Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future by the year 2000 may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons " -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949 Ted