<There is something going on in the economy alright > EC, having worked with multiple mainframes & OS's & many generations of PCs and their OS's since their inception, I'd like to offer my theory on why it's come down to Wintel in recent years. It's in big brother's best interest, whether one considers big brother to be government or big business or a merger of both. True innovation and productivity gains are too hard to be controlled and directed. Freezing innovation and locking into Wintel and especially what started as an Ascii character based internet protocol had to have been a dream come true for a controlling administration. Gov't has a history of trying to hold back new technology until it has its back door. We've had some pretty significant technologies developed within the last decade involving search capabilities and data mining. The conversion of analog communications to digital offers unlimited unmanned monitoring capabilities.
For those in control, the choice of Intel is interesting because Intel has never been known to be an innovator. They were always good at copying and shrinking other's designs. I'm still waiting to see their 64-bit Merced chip which somehow put DEC's mature 3rd generation debugged 64-bit Alpha chip off the map during this last administration, even though it's yet to exist. (BTW, Goldman represented CPQ who eliminated DEC). I believe they could never keep up with what DEC's engineers (for one) could throw at them, so lets get rid of who can stand in our way. Competition the spirit of Clinton era gov't/business - I don't think so. I read years ago that due to the complex design of Merced, development of testing software alone would be a 3 year plus task. I believe we've seen the same kind of lack of innovation from MSFT, a company that exists because they bought their first version of DOS for $50,000 (of course not telling them they were going to resell it to IBM). I don't call innovation buying up a potentially competitive product and just bundling it with your OS. Was the street offering billions to help develop more productive and efficient hardware and OS's? I think they wanted it to stop there, thank you very much: Here's a bunch of billions to go distract yourselves with Dot.Coms that have no business plans that can ever make money. Please also look away while we manipulate the Gold market as we're also feeling a bit threatened by anything representing the will of a free market since we "worked so hard"(Abby) to eliminate it.
There is something going on in the economy alright
regards,
Tom |
