🚀 go-pugleaf

Earlier I wrote:

> There will be fast computers and fast/cheap computers.

I feel I must revise this.  While reading Kidder and driving around
with a fellow programmer, I conclude there will be a third class of 
computer:

	The compatible

The compatible isn't the plug compatible, or the clone, it will be a
computer which exactly emulates the object code of dusty machines,
mostly critically needed in life situations:  I'm think of FAA air
traffic control, process control (BART, MARTA, the WDC Metro, etc.)
medical, and to a lesser extent things like payroll.  The problem being
that these situations have in some cases used very specialized
computers, and real time programming isn't well established.  To a
lesser extent this will include dusty card deck payroll programs.  We 
will see more compatibility modes to make up for this, more virtual 
machine front-ends, etc.

Eugene Miya