Posts by JRStern

Return it to agriculture

Heck, many many moons ago I lived in beautiful adjacent Westboro and I remember the old DEC plant, the entire region was still half agricultural. A few years later the state changed tax laws or something and all the old, OLD farms went out of business, turned into residential and industrial space. I haven't seen it in years, but my suggestion is as above.

Been there done that

Just note it was before remote login or cameras on phones.

I suppose I've also been the dunce often enough, "Oh, THAT button."

Nope

Quantum computing is the cold fusion of, um, computing. In each case there is the theory, the hope, the dream, that just because it would be so darn useful if it only worked, then the whole universe is willing to violate every known law of entropy, combinatorics, conservation, all for you.

"And by then, we may have such advanced quantum computers that Majorana qubits will have even longer to catch up."

ROFLMAO

>IBM has one chance of salvation: to migrate back to engineering.

It's been, what maybe 25 years since IBM attempted innovation in engineering?

And what about their announcement, when was it, ten, fifteen years ago, that they would have no development operations in the US, only "customer-facing". Like ALL jobs aren't customer facing, when it comes right down to it.

Perhaps IBM still has strengths, I don't know, they have zero mind-share. They might be the anti-Google, do stuff that matters, do stuff that works, do stuff for customers. But that's what they've run away from.

But in this other article I read they're shipping 18tb drives for $600. Consolidate? I mean, if you want to consolidate plumbing, think of the money you could save putting the bathtub and toilet next to the kitchen sink. Consolidate your SUV with your electric scooter. Couldn't we play this game all day?

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of Itanium

Before everyone realized that it's all about cache and memory bandwidth so the core architecture barely matters. All those zippy CPU architectures reaching back to when Burroughs was the most interesting computer company in the world, coming to naught against the crufty x86.

Thanks for these other comments btw, I never realized Itanium was Intel's excuse not to push on 64-bit x86, always wondered how AMD had tripped across that victory.

Algol-W

On punched cards.