On 10/8/2014 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Digimerlists@alteeve.ca wrote:
Airbags, ABS, Traction Control, ACE compatibility, stronger survival space, better fuel economy, more comfortable...
I think I've forgotten what user interfaces these break. Did they take away the steering wheel to add them?
they took away the clutch pedal.
anyways, cars are not a good analogy to computers over the same time scale, unless you want to go back to the days of the model T, where the 3 pedals operated clutch bands on a planetary transmission, and the throttle and ignition timing were levers on the steering wheel, and the brakes were a hand lever.
computers have evolved far faster than automobiles over the last 40 years that I've been in this industry. maybe I should start whining about lower case, and these damn interactive guis, after all hollerith punchcards and batch processing was good enough in the 1970s! Why, we could get amazing stuff done with 8K words of core, and a 1000K word hard disk.