Whilst I share the feeling that a lot more should have been possible, the earlier work informed or transformed almost all of what personal computing is today, and arguably, the embodiments that are closest to the original are proving themselves to be most successful.
With hindsight, I don't think it's obvious that different tactics would have changed the outcome. I would be interested to hear how you think greater impact could have been achieved the first time around. On Jan 21, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 21 January 2012 23:42, Robin Barooah <ro...@sublime.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It seems to me that if this project has even 1/10 of the impact that the >> earlier work had, then it will still be one of the most significant >> contributions to the state of the art. > > True, but the earlier work had far less than 1/10th of the impact it > deserved, and I fear that'll happen again. > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
