Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!agate!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!torrie From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr6.075425.18800@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 6 Apr 91 07:54:25 GMT References: <9x1G.&$h1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr06.013637.28281@ariel.unm.edu> <#54G+r2i1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr06.042636.3533@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 32 nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: >I don't think the computer market will change in the next five years >like it has in the past five. Au contraire, I think the PC market is going to change a LOT more in the next five years than it has in the past five. Consider, since 1986 (5 years ago), not a single significant new architecture has come to market - the IBM PC already existed, the Mac already existed, the Amiga and the Atari ST already existed. Sure there have been faster CPUs and faster buses introduced, but they still have the same old CPU families and same-design OSes. In the previous 5 years to that (1981-1986), all of these machines were introduced anew. In the next 5 years (91-96), we're going to see new RISC architectures from ARCA, pen-driven machines from Go et al, RS/6000 systems coming down into the PC market from IBM, RISC machines and new OSes from Apple etc... 86 - 91 was a relatively boring period in the short life of microcomputers; 91-96 is promising to be much more interesting. I'll be very surprised if software and hardware aren't radically different in 96 than they are today. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu "Dear Fascist Bully Boy, Give me some money, or else. Neil. P.S. May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the womb of your woman..."