Re: Future of Delphi 7.x - need official word from Borland

From: Kirk Halgren (khalgren_at_sti.nasa.gov)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:48:46 -0500

"TJC Support" <jvsREMOVE@REMOVEtybeejet.com> wrote in message
news:41f7a7a0@newsgroups.borland.com...
 Hi Van,
<snip>
> > "Kirk Halgren" <khalgren@sti.nasa.gov> wrote in message
> > news:41f79e4e$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > If Microsoft made cars, they'd cost about $3.50, get hundreds of miles
per
> > gallon, but if your motor stalled halfway through a journey of 1000
miles,
> > you'd find yourself back in your driveway.
>
> Yeah! I guess the Apollo 13 astronauts could have benefited from that.
:^)
<snip>

Did you know that the computers onboard the Space Shuttle use the venerable
IBM 360 architecture? The hardware is more recent, but they want an OS
which is as stable as possible. That architecture marked the first time
customers could move their programs from one model to another (prior to
that, each new mainframe had a different architecture, so needed all apps to
be rewritten from scratch!).

> LOL! There are times when I wish I could just pick up the phone and say
> "Sarah, get me Andy".

That would be like the original phone interface, where the human operator
knew everyone in town, and may know that Andy is having a meal at the diner.

Kirk Halgren

"Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence.
Kindness in action leads to love."
-- Lao-Tzu c. 604 - c. 531 BC

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