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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr06.171913.22018@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 91 17:19:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: ariel.1991Apr06.171913.22018
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In article <1991Apr6.075425.18800@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>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.
>
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>-- 
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>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..."

IBM just dropped OS/2 because of a lack on interest.

                                              NCW