[TUHS] The era of general purpose computing (Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode
Luther Johnson
luther at makerlisp.com
Fri Jan 20 11:15:46 AEST 2023
Well, that's a comforting thought, I hope it goes that way.
On 01/19/2023 06:10 PM, John Cowan wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM Luther Johnson <luther at makerlisp.com
> <mailto:luther at makerlisp.com>> wrote:
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> 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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