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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID 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: 1164ba,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 110df7,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid110df7,public From: �puma@hannover.sgh-net.de Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects Date: 2000/03/29 Message-ID: <38e278c3.306801@news.hannover.sgh-net.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604013392 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <0hHhOB6JC0shHWoiFENqSKhFoJol@4ax.com> <38e2abb2.13703965@news.hannover.sgh-net.de> <38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@sgh-net.de X-Trace: trinity.hannover.sgh-net.de 954362603 28649 193.218.208.7 (29 Mar 2000 20:43:23 GMT) Organization: SGH Internet Division Mime-Version: 1.0 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: Maybe you might want to download and read the pdf file - just like me ? -------------------- On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:06:58 -0500, Ted Edwards wrote: >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