From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Feb 24 13:43:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9099237B4EC for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:43:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14Wmde-00024M-00; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:54:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3A982D79.3335694A@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:54:01 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Itty bitty boxes dislodge PCs? (No longer RMS) References: <003001c09bc9$314aeea0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Your never going to see anything come along and dislodge C and C++ from their > positions, Funny, "they" said that about C over Pascal, and C++ over C. > just as your never going to see a special-purpose PC (like a > webTV box or a Sony Playstation) dislodge the general purpose desktop PC. Dislodge the PC from what? Sales numbers that are a couple of orders of magnitude SMALLER than the market for Playstations? Gee, thats a market to go after. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message