[Info-vax] [OT] Linux use, was: Re: Unix on A DEC Vax?

[MG]

On 20-jan-2013 0:30, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Android is fragmenting, but it's fragmenting because it, and the
> hardware it's running on, is evolving at an amazing rate, and to
> be honest I find it rather exciting.

To empty your wallet regularly to stay 'up-to-date'?


> It reminds me of the early days of the PC when the PC standards we
> see today were still developing (or didn't exist yet) and vendors
> tried all kinds of different things in the race to create a better
> product.

Incrementally of course.  (/Buy buy buy!/)


> In the same way that the PC became a enabling technology that we now
> take for granted, what we are seeing now is also going to become a
> enabling technology for new portable/mobile applications.

Don't you also love all the non-stop staring at phones nowadays?


> One day we will get the Android version of beige boxes, but by that
> time, a whole new ecosystem will have been created. (And then, if
> history is any guide, we will get additional platforms to fix whatever
> limits might remain in Android. :-))

And there will be no wars anymore!

  - MG