-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Brenda A. Bell hath spake thusly: > Somewhere on the Internet there's an anthology of hilarious quotes... I > believe it was someone from IBM who said "why would anyone ever need > more than 640K RAM in a personal computer".
Actually that was Bill Gates... Except that he denies it. > As much as I hate to give them credit for anything, I believe > Redmond is greatly responsible for the kind of PC hardware we have > today... Windows 3.1 was a hog, but people wanted it and the > hardware vendors did what they needed to to keep up. I have to disagree. While I think they may have had an influence, I think the largest influence was by far had by the gaming industry. They're the ones pushing the graphics accelerators into the gagillions of pixels per nanosecond range... and the average home/business user STILL has no need of anything more powerful than a Pentium 200MHz running Windows 95. Except for games. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9WFWIdjdlQoHP510RArLgAJ9ezBOJekE5kOrrk05wwtHwROzeKQCfdjtL VTCz1VHtQ43DOpHXcRKH3rs= =xxag -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
