The speed of change

Just a humorous look backwards...

While reducing my stacks of old periodicals (to make room for new stacks, I 
guess), I ran across this from NEWS 3X/400, June 1991, Street Talk:

"A variation of the printed hype is the roving Rochester mavens who speak to 
user groups and IBM seminars. The common tactic they use to entice AS/400 users 
is to give the audience juicy behind-the-scenes tidbits about what's running at 
Rochester's labs: AS/400 quadradic processors, AIX on the AS/400, C++ on the 
AS/400, and so on. None of this is commercially available, or likely to be 
commercially available on the AS/400 in our lifetime, mind you, so the message 
seems to be, 'See, we _could_ make the AS/400 work like other minis _if we 
wanted to_.'"

One needn't look too far into the future to find unfamiliar landscapes. 1991 is 
very far away in our industry, but I'm glad it didn't get far enough into the 
past that it's outside of our lifetimes.

Tom

-- 
Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788 x313
Fax    253-872-7904
http://www.powertech.com


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