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

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Real computers with keyboards etc won't go away; think about
all those servers running the backends of the apps and the
databases for the cool stuff on the phones.  Someone is still
going to have to write those bits.

Arnold

Luther Johnson <luther at makerlisp.com> wrote:

> Well, that's a comforting thought, I hope it goes that way.
>
> On 01/19/2023 06:10 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 5:23 PM Luther Johnson <luther at makerlisp.com 
> > <mailto: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.
>