Re: Lead and Signaling conventions
- From: aleaxit@xxxxxxxxx (Alex Martelli)
- Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 09:43:03 -0700
David Stevenson <bridge2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
thirties "there will be no war", in the fifties "the world has room for
maybe five computers" [Bill Gates, I believe], and all sorts of other
Bill Gates was born in 1955 and so was not really in a position to say
all that much in the fifties. You may be thinking of Thomas Watson, the
founder of IBM, who is _alleged_ (probably falsely) to have said
something like that... but, in 1943 (and speaking of a world _market_
for that many, which, by the costs and performances foreseeable in 1943
-- no transistors, among other things -- would not have been out of
character, particularly from a 70-years old who was righly called "the
world's greatest salesman"... not a technologist;-). Cfr the "Famous
misquote" section of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson>.
Alex
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