Re: [ILUG] [OT] Genesis Europe, dirt cheap Internet access..

From: Nick Hilliard (nick at domain iol.ie)
Date: Tue 29 Feb 2000 - 12:14:36 GMT

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> Now why does this remind me of a certain design decision taken by a
> certain very large software manufacturer about its single user operating
> system in about 1980?

The graveyard that is the past is littered with the bones of fantastically
inaccurate predictions about the future. One of the heads of IBM once
confidently predicted that the US would one day need 4 or perhaps 5
computers.

Ubi sunt, I ask?

Nick

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