Re: Not "Satanism;" realism.

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Eric M. Bennett on 1/3/99 11:44 AM ---

>In other words... the PC market might be like the market for Unix
>workstations.  Mutliple hardware architectures, multiple operating systems,
>but a good degree of standard-based interoperability.

I was thinking in terms of complex consumer items, like cars -- but now 
that you mention it, I'd say the Unix analogy fits very well. I suspect 
that if the computing universe was populated with a greater variety of 
hardware and OS choices, developers would be compelled to come up with 
practical methods of producing portable code, instead of focusing on the 
single most popular hardware/OS combination.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net