Those "Thumping great Unix boxes" (or indeed even integrated circuits) didn't exist before the sixties. So it seems that technological revolutions do occur from time to time.
Yeah, but everything since then has been evolutionary.
There's nothing really new in computing at the moment. We've made transistors smaller so memory is denser and processors are faster. We've made better batteries. Really the big step change was flash memory and Li-Ion.
What's the Big New Thing going to be, what's the 21st Century's PDP11 going to be?
ErroneousBosh|4 days ago
There's nothing really new in computing at the moment. We've made transistors smaller so memory is denser and processors are faster. We've made better batteries. Really the big step change was flash memory and Li-Ion.
What's the Big New Thing going to be, what's the 21st Century's PDP11 going to be?