The message 20060115211322.GB17665@jtkpc.cmp.uea.ac.uk from "Jan T. Kim" jtk@cmp.uea.ac.uk contains these words:
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This email is just an attempt to wrest some final use out of these things before they're scrapped.
I thoroughly approve of that sentiment. I'm still using kitchen utensils which were wedding presents for my parents - before the war.
Hmm... I wonder how much longer we'll have to wait until computer equipment and the underlying standards will be this long-lived...
Today's kitchen equipment isn't a patch on the quality it used to be.
While I can see that computer stuff is getting faster and faster in an almost exponential way, there must be some limit of usability for all this acceleration. Quantum computers aren't that far away, but will the home user really need such a tool?