On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 05:45:10 +0000 EscuelitaViva via blfs-support <blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> New to the list and will be helping out as best I can to support my > favorite project, LFS. I'm a grey beard, a throw back from the Commodore, > Atari, Timex Sinclair, Trash 80 days. Anyone program Fortran here? > Never mind ;P Welcome! :) FWIW, I still own a working TRS-80 Model I system - complete with expansion interface (48K RAM, two disk drives, etc.). It was given to me by my high school after they upgraded to Macs. My own personal system back in those days was a TRS-80 Color Computer. > But at the rate things are changing, not just in our field, but in the > world in general ... going to need a miracle to pull off supporting > the exponential growth of these systems in the future. This is something people don't appreciate yet - that complexity carries a cost of its own. In the recent (October) issue of IEEE Spectrum, there is an article about how traffic apps are *causing* traffic jams because they fail to take into consideration how their use/advice will alter existing traffic patterns. Also, they don't consider factors such as the (un)suitability of certain roads, when schools let out, etc. The coming end of Moore's Law will slow the change - systems will advance linearly rather than exponentially. I believe that there will then be a greater emphasis on quality and reliability than is the case today. One of the many things I like about LFS is that, to me, in some respects, complexity is actually *reduced*, at least in the long term. There certainly is a steep learning curve, but the Unix system evolves slowly and deliberately - when changes happen, there usually is some good engineering reason for doing so. Contrast this with how unwanted changes are often quickly forced down the throats of users of Microsoft products, etc. Cheers, Mike Shell -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
