Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 1 Nov 2024 13:01:12 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Kludge wrote:

in BASIC were superfluous and it didn't matter if they didn't work right,
and that stack machines had no future.  (He was in fact right about the
last one unfortunately.)

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Was he right or was he just trying to shift the blame?

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Well, he made the argument that they were making a product that was broken,
but not enough people were buying it for them to bother fixing it.  However,
too many people were buying it for them to stop selling it.  I find this
argument abhorrent.
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But it IS true that the HP1000 series was of limited industry acceptance and
soon died out and that you won't see stack machine architectures on the
market today.  I loved programming those things.

The name, however, lives on. Indeed, my first post-XP-windows and
first laptop was an HP Mini 1000 running Windows 7 Starter.

By any chance, are any of these what you are referring to?

https://hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=3&cat=37
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