[rescue] Blades in the dark

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Nov 23 19:38:40 CST 2001


On November 23, Scott Newell wrote:
> >I agree wholeheartedly.  very few things have hurt this sector as badly as 
> >the PeeCee.
> 
> Wow.  I know I wouldn't be doing any programming if it weren't for personal
> computers (I'm using the term PC in a broad sense--not just the IBM PC).  I
> think cheap ubiquitous computing has been a great thing, even if it has
> diluted the importance of the old-school computing high priesthood.

  Cheap ubiquitous computing hasn't hurt the industry...PCs have, and
Windows even more, though it can be blamed on PCs.  I use the term
"PC" here referring to the "PC architecture", not the generic
"personal computers".

   -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL



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