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=2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,HK_RANDOM_FROM, 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: 110df7,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid110df7,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,a8d0156246a83355 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public From: "Charles E. Bortle, Jr." Subject: Re: Article: The shift away from user directed projects Date: 2000/04/13 Message-ID: <8d5l1b$603$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 610887199 References: <0hHhOB6JC0shHWoiFENqSKhFoJol@4ax.com> <38e2abb2.13703965@news.hannover.sgh-net.de> <38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca> X-Priority: 3 X-Server-Date: 13 Apr 2000 23:25:31 GMT X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.asm,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.basic Date: 2000-04-13T23:25:31+00:00 List-Id: Hello All, Interesting quote Ted :-) Reminds me of the quote about how nobody would ever need more than 4k of memory (I think that was Bill Gates, but I cannot remember...I need more memory ;-) Interesting article Myles. -- Charles cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com "For God So Loved The World, That He Gave His Only Begotten Son, That Whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not Perish, But Have Everlasting Life"John3:16 * http://pw2.netcom.com/~cbrtjr/wrdthing.html * Ted Edwards wrote in message news:38E1FFF2.7342@bc.sympatico.ca... > 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 >