On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:00 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
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.
I'd compare those to the pre-sysV unix system designs. Where sysV became the standard to follow - or copy pretty explicitly like linux distributions did. Which was why we used them.
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.
So now we have hardware hundreds of times faster, and you are trying to tell me it can't do the same thing in a backward compatible way???
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com