From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 1999 - 10:53:00 MDT
> CountZero <count_zero@bigfoot.com> said
> ... Windows (tm) ...,
> is a bloated mess, likely impossible for any single human to understand,
> _it works_, it gives me what I want at the moment and I'm more than
> willing to throw hardware at it as long as the hardware is cheap since
> the alternative is to wait (possibly for a long time) to get the same
> capabilities in properly optimized code.
>
This is a *very* *very* scary thought. Since we can expect the
hardware to keep getting cheaper at least through 2012 (when they
hit the five atom gate thickness limit), then probably transition
over to nanotech (whence comes 1 cm^3 nanocomputers) -- the implication
is that we will have an extended period in which to develop increasingly
sloppy code.
So are *you* going to upload your mind onto one of these platforms?!?
We better hope the great hope that an AI comes along that can understand
the whole mess and can untangle the spagetti.
Robert
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