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Article #1692Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Alan Morgan
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <6urbd7$7ln$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Mr S A Penny <phuae@lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk> wrote: >In article <6uran1$cak$1@nntp.stanford.edu>, > amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Morgan) writes: >>I'd be willing to bet that in 50 years you won't >>be able to run Windows 98 on any computer than doesn't come from the collection >>of some computer archivist. > >I don't think you're right there, even the new proposed 64-bit chip, merced, >will emulate an x86... I may well be wrong (it does happen occasionally) but computers have changed a lot in the last 50 years (going from not-existing to existing :-) ) and I think that anyone who expects fewer changes in the next half-century is kidding themselves. Anyway, you'll have to wait 50 years to collect, which gives me plenty of time to grow a beard, change my name, and move to Equador where you can't find me. Alan
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alan Morgan) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/29 Message-ID: <6urgt0$esa$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 396107203 References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980929174327.11647A-100000@welpc040.domgen.com> <6uran1$cak$1@nntp.stanford.edu> <6urbd7$7ln$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss