Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 04:13:16 -0500 (EST) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Joel Sutton <jsutton@bbcon.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Unix World Jan 1991 - 10 Predictions for the '90s Message-ID: <XFMail.991230041316.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912291827100.74567-100000@stargate.home>
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How did this get on freebsd-chat? Please don't tell me you put freebsd-chat on the vicfug mailing list! ;) On 29-Dec-99 Joel Sutton wrote: > Prediction #4 > > UNIX end users will start a consortium. Tired of seeing the word 'user' > applied to everyone but themselves, the people who use UNIX but who aren't > supposed to know it will take control. Their purpose will be to escape > from their mouse-ridden GUI environments and flee to the simple beauty of > the UNIX shell. Late in the '90s they will discover shell scripts. Heh.. there's such a thing as a keyboard-ridden GUI environment. And that's mine - WindowMaker. The simple beauty of the shell comes with a victim - productivity. I can do a hell of a lot more at once with X than console. Although that's mostly because of higher resolutions and more scrollback support. ;) > Prediction #5 > > An untimely demise of Sun Microsystems. Sun Microsystems will not escape > financial ruin at the hands of a Far Eastern copier of Levi's jeans and > Gucci watches. Despite the best efforts of U.S. Customs officals, an Asian > SPARC cloner will copy the Sun Microsystems logo. The cloner's 100 mips > laptop workstations will be sold out of briefcases on street corners in > Manhattan, London, Tokyo, and Berlin, thus ending one of the most exciting > sagas in computing. Now that's a weird one. Sun has not only survived Mirosoft's attacks but seems to be flourishing.. mostly thanks to Linux, which (IIRC) didn't exist in 1991. > Prediction #6 > > DEC will introduce a symmetric multi-processing system on New Year's Eve, > 1999. It will have industry-standard connectors on its serial ports. They did that a long time ago. (I don't know about the serial ports part though! ;) > Prediction #7 > > SPARC and Intel will be the winners of the microprocessor wars. Microsoft > will port PC/MS-DOS to Intel's i860 RISC chip "to improve graphics > performance". I believe Motorola and IBM have ousted SPARC with their PowerPC chips. > Prediction #10 > > Most of you will enjoy these predictions more than hearing how wonderful > UNIX World will be in 1991. Nah, I think they're ill-gotten visionaries by someone who was smoking a crack pipe and actually thought he could get around the chaos theory. ;) All in all, an amusing chronicle of the UNIX world before my time. -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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