UNIX V7

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Josh Dersch wrote:
>> Most likely someone at DEC foresaw that the rise of the killer micros
>> was going to be as bad as it was, and managed to convince a few people
>> that IBM PC-compatibles and their consumer OSes were the future for all.
>>
>> I seriously hope that this is not true, and that nobody foresaw
>> computing as it exists today.
> 
> Yeah,  what a horrible world we live in -- affordable, powerful hardware 
> capable of running a wide variety of free, powerful, and useful 
> operating systems and software and emulating every vintage system under 
> the sun.  A world -wide-network making the collecting and maintainance 
> of our hobby projects possible.  Digital watches.

The world we live in today *is* great.  But it wouldn't be great without 
all the invisible *large* **powerful** machines running off in the 
background somewhere doing a lot of heavy lifting.

It's the people who predicted everything would be obsolete except the PC 
were *wrong*.

Peace...  Sridhar