6 Sep
2001
6 Sep
'01
4:06 p.m.
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Then, as you said in your previous message, it
is important that
we are preserving the much more flexible machines to be able to show
what could be done with them and how many more choices they
represented. There will always have to be some sort of general
purpose machine though at some level so that the applications and such
for the embedded machines can be produced.
Or computing, as it always does, comes back around full circle and
everything old is new again: you write the apps on a big and powerful
general purpose machine and compile them for the target computer.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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