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- From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Computer History Project, & backwards compat
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 18:18:39 GMT
- References: <LYNCH.92Jul28122313@flubber.cc.utexas.edu> <154raeINNcsu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <id.RSXR.X1@ferranti.com>
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- In article <id.RSXR.X1@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >
- >Waxing analogical... who would want to drive a 1920-era car?
-
- Well, let's see. Would you want to drive a 1920-era car to work everyday,
- or for all the other things you use a modern car for?
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- On the other hand, would you have shows where people come from miles around
- to view old software being run? Would you have large gatherings where
- people are drawn together only by their common interest in running old
- software? For that matter, what will you do when you run old software?
- Will groups of friends gather to write new 1401 assembler programs?
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- But then comparing an old computer to an old car is stretching the
- analogy anyway; because a car is a personal possession whereas most of
- the old computers were not. Maybe a better analogy is a 1920s army
- tank or airplane.
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