DamageX wrote:
And I would say that computers have made more progress in two decades than cars have. Todays cheap wintel box can emulate the once impressive and pricey Sharp X68000 but todays VW Jetta (or whatever) doesn't offer much compared to an '87 BMW M3.
Yes and no. I guess it kind of depends on how you look at it. In a broad sense cars have only one real purpose; that is to haul one's **tt from point a to point b. Since they only perform this one function, certainly a very important function, they tend to do it quite well. PCs, on the other hand, are pitched as
the tool for
every job -- a digital swiss army knife. Consequently it tends to be a mediocre tool for a lot of jobs that could be accomplished faster and with less effort than with specialized, yet more primitive tools. My favorite example (no, LEAST favorite example) is the computer screen as a substitute for the printed manual! A huge leap backwards! Another is computer "photo albums". Pleasing to the eyes maybe, but no substitute for the real thing. Real photo albums are like living time capsules, physical witnesses to a bygone era. They have a unique texture, even a faint musk; that charm is completely lost in digital. Too much "duct tape" (tacked on "features") in newer machines. Computer companies have long abandoned the time-tested wisdom found in the K.I.S.S. principle. As such I would say that computers have not necessarily advanced more than cars over the last two decades. I say "advanced" in the purest sense of the word.
Never really liked any of Apple's OSs.
Me either! MacOS is like trying to work in Crayon.
Amiga ru1ez but is out of date and not cost effective.
Yes it does. No it isn't. Perhaps.
Dave
