[SunRescue] Rant on industry employment practices, was RE: 16 MB memory module for Voyager

[Liam Stewart]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> Funny side story: Remember Geoworks? (PC/GEOS)  They came to Enable
> looking for a "killer app" before Win 3.0 came out.  Above dildohead said
> that nobody would go GUI, told 'em no.  Just imagine if it had gone
> otherwise...

In the same vein...In first year I had a prof who told us he had written
an paper back in the 80s, I think.. In it, he predicted that micros would
never take off. We had a good laugh when he told us that :)

Liam

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