[CentOS] Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems

Wed Oct 8 19:24:02 UTC 2014
Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com>

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.

>


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