From: collins@cs.wm.edu (Bob Collins)
Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy
Date: 1999/02/28
Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <collins-2802990844090001@cx832447-a.nwptn1.va.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner
Completely off-topic now (sorry), but the latest edition
of the print magazine Wired has an interesting article
on the $50,000,000 worth of punch cards still sold today
(for use as a computer data medium) and the companies
that still support the key punch hardware. Not bad for
something that was predicted to be obsolete in the mid-70's.
In article <1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> In article <7baj6j$e57@drn.newsguy.com>, bill@ writes:
>
> > Any way. The whole active X, VB, COM, Windows world is dying. You might not
> > see it now, but wait 2-3 years. The new revolution in software is
> > happening in the world of open source and the GNU/Linux/Apache and all
> > of this will become the new platform where exciting things will be
> > developed on (and hopefully Ada will be part of this). And when windows
> > die, VB will die with it since that is only place it is used on.
>
> That sounds like a prediction of "will die" rather than a report of
> "is dying". Remember the fate of all past advocates in the computing
> field who have predicted "my new favorite <whatever> will soon replace
> the old trashy <whatever>".
>
> Larry Kilgallen
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Bob Collins <mailto:collins@cs.wm.edu> <http://ratbert.cs.wm.edu>
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-18 0:00 CompUSA New Policy David Botton
1999-02-24 0:00 ` schrader01
1999-02-24 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-02-26 0:00 ` fmanning
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-27 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-28 0:00 ` Bob Collins [this message]
1999-02-28 0:00 ` bill
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-01 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-01 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-01 0:00 ` fraser
1999-03-01 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Tony Gair
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-26 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-28 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-24 0:00 ` DPH
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