On 10/08/2014 03:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/8/2014 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Digimer<lists at 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. Yes, wasn't it amazing how much could get done with so little resources. We ran our whole college administration on an IBM-1130 with 8K of core and a 2.5mega byte removable drive. > -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves Managed Services, LLC.* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com