Sujet : Re: rant
De : gmkeros (at) *nospam* gmail.com (kyonshi)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.actionDate : 13. Aug 2024, 11:10:10
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:19:58 -0500, Altered Beast wrote:
Kyonshi wrote:
On 8/4/2024 6:09 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
On 8/3/2024 10:38 PM, Mark P. Nelson wrote:
Look, the whole point of the *personal* computer was that you didn't
have to rent time from IBM to figure out your profit/loss balance.
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Ever since then, every computer company has been trying desperately
to revive the "You only rent it" model to bolster their bottom line,
no matter their public face on the question.
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We're getting closer and closer to no longer having personal
computers which we own and can configure/control as we wish but
rather Microsoft or Banana computers for which we pay a regular fee.
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Pfui!
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Its not just computers.
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well, by now lots of things have more computing power than was used to
get man to the moon. e.g. cars.
What units are computing power measured in?
I would go with the C64 in that case, because I always heard that the
computing power to get people to the moon was equal to three C64s. We
could just use a different baseline though.
rant
Re: rant