Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: The Sixth Generation
Message-ID: <1990May3.153742.9750@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <76700193@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <422@dg.dg.com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 90 15:37:42 GMT

In article <422@dg.dg.com> publius@dg-pag.webo.dg.com (Publius) writes:
>By the time they come up with something, the underlining technology of
>computers may have changed to something completely different, such as
>optical devices, or things made of superconducting material...

More likely, actually, just faster silicon.  Silicon is really pretty
good stuff, and it's getting more development money than all its would-be
competitors put together.

>... And the invisible hand of Adam Smith will make
>sure that the best architecture comes out on top.

The invisible hand of Adam Smith right now is full of Intel x86 machines,
and I *refuse* to believe that those are the world's best computer
architecture!
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