[TUHS] The era of general purpose computing (Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode

[Luther Johnson]

To be fair, one of my kids is an engineer, and definitely has several 
computers. But the others who are not, do not have personal computers, 
they have phones.

On 01/19/2023 03:39 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
>
> I think development environments will follow the people onto their 
> preferred platforms, and will change or adapt as necessary. So the 
> kind of computing we are used to, with a "computer", may become more 
> and more marginalized. Business will go where the numbers are, and 
> what we think of as mainstream will become "retro" or "vintage". Most 
> of my acquaintances who are 20 or 30 years younger than me, or my 
> now-grown children, already think using a "computer" is kind of a 
> "boomer" thing.
>
> On 01/19/2023 03:29 PM, Rich Salz wrote:
>>
>>     What % of people running Chromebooks, Android or IOS
>>     do any real programming on it? Even for laptops and
>>     desktops that % is quite low. Most people run just a
>>     few apps.
>>
>>
>> So what.  How many people fix their own cars, TVs, etc.
>

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