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Article #8583Re: Cellular Phones of the Future
From: David J Bell
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 06:07
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 1990 06:07
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>>In article <1990Nov19.175339.14777@zoo.toronto.edu> (Henry Spencer) writes: >> The demand looks to me to be fairly small, unlikely to be more than the >> current cellular systems, or modest upgrades thereof, can handle. Few >> people actually have much of a need for mobile phone service, barring >> emergencies... >If it becomes available cheap, there will be demand. Lots. >Remember how it was said (back in the days of Univac) that a dozen computers >would suffice for the computing needs of the whole planet ? > /* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ Exactly! And John von Neuman also said that "with a thousand words of memory, I can solve ANY problem". Cellular systems are already becoming overloaded in metropolitan areas. The *really BIG* problem to be solved will be to make the service massively available; the details of man/machine interface will be minor in comparison. Dave dbell@cup.portal.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!dbell From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Cellular Phones of the Future Message-ID: <36254@cup.portal.com> Date: 27 Nov 90 06:07:09 GMT References: <6571@bgsu-stu.UUCP> <1990Nov19.085022.13398@yenta.alb.nm.us><1990Nov19.175339.14777@zoo.toront o.edu> <OTTO.90Nov21184359@tukki.jyu.fi> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 20