On 10/5/19 2:14 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Technically [the new automobile] was never an "upgrade" but a brand new and alternative > system. > ... The automobile was originally billed in many areas as the 'horseless carriage,' an upgrade. > Luxury. Try running on a 32k single processor computer, started with > booting the card reader which read cards that booted from a tape. > > ... Frontpanel, 256 words (12-bit words), and paper tape. But I also never had that straight-8 on the net, either, but, via uucp, I did have the T6K on Usenet. > No comparison between 50+ years ago with this constantly developing and > fascinating New World. However KISS remains valid. If it works smoothly, > don't mess it up. But that's the point; the previous solution didn't work as smoothly for all use cases as one might want to believe.