On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:00 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at 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 at gmail.com