Re: Your input for the perfect computer!

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

John Kavanagh replied (to me >> ):

>> Any "realistic designs" will be guaranteed to be just more of the same
>> that we will naturally expect to be produced.
>
>I disagree, if you think about it the PC is not a realistic design for a
>home computer, at least not as a consumer product. Something realistic that
>is really different is possible and not only that, could be successful also.
>OS on ROM anybody ;-)

Pardon my irony (that's why the quotes  ;-).  I like the idea of an
instant-on system, but I think it's more likely to come from
non-volatile RAM.

>> Chris has the right idea--unfettered brainstorming is the mode that is
>> more likely to produce a real breakthrough in personal computer
>> design (which is quite mired and evolving at a glacial pace).
>
>I think the best stuff came from brainstorming :-)

Hear, hear!

-michael

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