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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18375)4/8/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: Eugene Goodman  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Dan, consider this:

My first brush with computers was in the '50s. Then and more strongly
in the '60s a companies computer operations were staffed by people who were answerable to no one- a priesthood that continuously won all of the stand-offs, the pissing contests that decided who had the power.
In fact for a short while I was one of them.

You would enter their church and beg to get some computer time to do an urgent job that has the highest priority. "Tough, we are running the phone book. Try again tomorrow morning."

Now I can answer the point raised in your first paragraph.

Who will reformat the world? Everyone. That is the benefit of individual PCs. The computer power is distributed to everyone.
This is power to the people- true utopian democracy.And when
things stop running? Try control-alt-delete. If that doesn't
work- pull the plug and bang on the box. It's only a very
expensive slide rule. Both the problems and their solutions
are simple, obvious and are known, at least by guys of your generation,

And Win 95. Why not. I'm waiting for Windows 97 to buy new machines.
This ratcheting of demand for computing power by MSFT and the supply
by Intel has been going smoothly for over 10 years. Lets hope that it
continues. It's more than adding tail fins to a car since each
generation of software and machine has improved functionality,
creating new demand. New wealth is created. You and many guys like
you can look forward to an interesting, very well paid career that would less certain if the the PC operating system were perfect with
no need for improvement ever.

In my neighborhood 15 year old kids were making $ 50 installing Windows 95. Is this bad?

Gene
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