Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> And, of course, Ken Olsen truly believed it when he said that the PC was > "snake oil". :-) But the PC and DOS were snake oil at the time, and over a many year period, they advanced beyond that, obviously. But, to Ken's credit, he did have the vision to believe that individual computers were not really as useful as ones that were networked to other systems, which the Internet has proven to be true. Fact is, most people use their very expensive computer as an Internet terminal. Austin - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html