Re: Simplicity And Computing

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:39:27 -0000 (UTC), Ben Collver wrote:
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... Current versions of MS word ...

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I’m not sure what you can conclude about the general state of computing
just from looking at one crummy proprietary app, and an old version of it
at that.

Unfortunately when most people think about computing, they think about
crummy proprietary apps.  So for most of the world, this IS the general
state of computing.

We once gave a tour of our supercomputing cluster to some of the organization
IT managers, and someone honestly asked if we ran Excel on it.  This is
honestly how IT people think computers are used.
--scott

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