21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
9:50 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:24:27PM -0500, Alvin Starr wrote:
In the days of !path email a single file made a lot of sense.
It was just much easier.
That is defiantly not true today.
You have to remember a very famous man once said "who needs more than 640K"
Except no one seems able to find any evidence he ever said that.
and someone once predicted that the world would only need 5 computers.
Given what a computer was when that was stated, it was probably true. For that type of computer. Once they became smaller, cheaper, faster, the market got a lot bigger.
All our good ideas today in 20 or so years will be though of as just plain stupid.
Well the ideas of unix seems to be holding up pretty well after 45 years. :) -- Len Sorensen