Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:54:01 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Itty bitty boxes dislodge PCs? (No longer RMS) Message-ID: <3A982D79.3335694A@softweyr.com> References: <003001c09bc9$314aeea0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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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
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