Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin Franklin wrote: >>And, of course, Ken Olsen truly believed it when he said that the PC was >>"snake oil". :-) > > > But the PC and DOS were snake oil at the time, and over a many year period, > they advanced beyond that, obviously. > > But, to Ken's credit, he did have the vision to believe that individual > computers were not really as useful as ones that were networked to other > systems, which the Internet has proven to be true. > > Fact is, most people use their very expensive computer as an Internet > terminal. True enough. Or, to paraphrase Sun's slogan,: The network is the network; the computer is the computer. :-). - -- Rolfe Tessem Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html