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In article <CnHM06.I7t@eskimo.com>, witters@eskimo.com (John Witters) writes:
|> In article <CnG1C5.78n@pts.mot.com> heda_mo@pts.mot.com writes:
|> >
|> >I have an interesting technical/scientific question.  Please think carefully
|> > before answering it ::
|> >
|> >Suppose we were living in 1970 again, with all technical knowledge that we
|> >have today.
|> >What stages of progress would we / could we  skip ??
|> >
|> >Basically, what mistakes did we do ??
|>
|> The Intel 8086 and MS-DOS!
|>
|> >You may say, none of them were mistakes but a way to learn and correct
|> >ourselves.  I agree.  But if you could do it again, what wouldn't you repeat
|> >??
|>
|> Basically, the whole personal computer industry repeated the mistakes that
|> were made in the 1950s and 1960s.  I guess if we couldn't learn from the past,
|> we shouldn't expect to learn from the future either.  If we knew then what we
|> know now, Bill Gates would probably still be a billionaire from selling
|> MS-DOS.
|>
|> -John
|>

The point is that the 'mistakes' were all part of the development of technology
and in no way could be avoided without already have the technology that came as
a result of making these 'mistakes'. If it was Intel's processors which became
the 'industry standard' it would have someone elses perhaps running a different
OS, but probably not any different in operation and uses, the exception perhaps
being if Macs had taken off we would all have been using GUIs long before
Microsoft actually had this 'brilliant new' idea about using them.

BTW couldn't you find a more suitable groupp for this heda_mo@pts.mot.com ?


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Nigel J. Andrews
Astronomical Instrumentation Group
Physics Department
University of Durham

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