____/ John Bailo, Texeme.Construct on Thursday 30 August 2007 16:56 : \____
> On Aug 30, 6:08 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> 2010: The year of the Linux Desktop
>>
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>> | Given that, as per Wikipedia, "Moore's Law is the empirical
>> | observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an
>> | integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24
>> | months." couldn't that alternately mean that computers might drop in
>> | price with the same RAM?
>> `----
>>
>> http://limulus.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/2010-the-year-of-the-linux-de...
>>
>> H-P has just begun selling Linux desktops.
>
> One thing to consider is, people who mock the Linux desktop do it in
> terms of its numbers versus the number of Windows desktops.
>
> But another way to look at is is to compare the rate of increase of
> Linux desktops year to year.
>
> If we do that, we may see something like the initial introduction of
> PCs and DOS when there were no PCs.
>
> For example, during much of the 80s, I think the number of total PCs
> worldwide were still below 100 million...so it wasn't an instant thing
> to get the PC from the office to the home and then to the Windows
> GUI. In fact, it took almost 20 years.
This took man years, surely, but it was inevitable. What's annoying is the case
of rewriting history and giving Microsoft credit for "bringing computing to
the masses".
Of course, Microsoft also invented the GUI, the spreadsheet, the word
processor, DOS....... NOT.
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