never said anone on FoRK is a netwit.
>Oh, and Bill funds half my paycheck, but that's totally irrelevant. ;-)
So if Bill didn't fund half your paycheck would your engineers be using
UltraSparc or SGI?
>I use Win95 on my new Compaq Armada (P133, 48 MB RAM, PCI bus, etc.) and
>am happy with it, although it's occasionally unstable.
uh-huh.. nice of you to admit that.
>I do what I at
>least consider "real work": e-mail, PowerPoint, Word, hardcore Excel,
>FrontPage, etc.
I do play work, Adobe Illustrator, PhotoShop, After Effects, QuickTime,
etc. Although finally I can use Tiffany, 3D Reality, Create, etc. :-0
>I'm confident that NT 5.0, with advanced power
>management and plug and play, will be the laptop OS of choice (and the
>desktop as well, of course) by the time Tim sends me my case of Pyramid
>Heferveisen (hopefully without shaking the bottles first out of spite).
>
>That said, I ultimately believe in Schumpeterian "creative destruction".
> I think Intel and Microsoft's profits are just too high for some guys
>in a garage not to be working on the complete paradigm shift that will
>threaten their dominance. But Java ain't it.
Not sure about Shumpie but I don't think it will be a paradigm shift, more
a small chipping away at the monolith. Java, OpenStepMac, Linux, N64 with a
Internet plug in, whatever....
Tim
--I got two turntables and a microphone...
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