Re: PC--What is it good for?

Matt Browne SFW schrieb:
> On Dec 9, 12:03 pm, "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> By PC I mean "personal computer", be it Windows OS, Mac OS, Linux OS or
even
>> Amiga OS, what are personal computers good for?
> 
>> What functionality is there left to put into their base operating
systems?
> 
>> -- Ken from Chicago
> 
> I think the future is not about huge operating systems getting bigger
> and ****nier every year. It's about smart and tailored "personal
> computers" being omnipresent in your life: in your clothes, your
> wristwatch, your gl*****, your multimedia center at home, your car and
> so forth...

I'm wary of the kind of thing that has been promised to me for the last 
15 years. I think the PC has lots of mileage in it, and current trends 
in ubiquitous computing seem to point at mobile devices becoming more 
PC-like, with fat-client OSes and software, not the other way around.

mawa