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

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM Luther Johnson <luther at makerlisp.com> wrote:

Computers that are not smart phone-like are definitely on the endangered
> species list. You know, the kind on  a desk, with  a keyboard ...
>

I don't have statistics for this, but I doubt it.  Consider amateur radio,
which has been around for a century now.  Amateur stations are an
ever-shrinking *fraction* of all transmitters, to say nothing of receivers,
but in absolute terms there are now more than 2 million hams in the world,
which is almost certainly more than ever.
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