Re: OT: Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

From: Preben Randhol <randhol_AT_pvv.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:42:14 +0200

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:16:22 +0200
Szabolcs Nagy <nszabolcs_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> absurdity stems from the unintuitive laws of quantum mechanics, not
> from the novelty of the technology, it won't change over time.

perhaps not intuitively, but I also remember an IBM boss claiming 5
computers would be sufficient for the world back in the good ol' days.
Another boss claiming 640kb was enough for everybody...

Some years back 1Gb was enormously large. In 5 years 500Tb will
probably be closer to standard ;-)
Received on Tue Jul 14 2009 - 17:42:14 UTC

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