I have ruffled many feathers with my position that the touch-driven computing sector is growing so fast that it's going to subsume the old WIMP model completely. I don't mean that iPads will replace Windows PCs, but that the descendants of the PC will look and act more like tablets than today's desktops and laptops ( Read more... )

(Repurposed CIX post ( Read more... )

So here's the thought. From things like reading the Unix Hater's Handbook [PDF] and so on, I get this impression that there was a time when Lisp Machines were widely considered by some very smart people to be the ultimate programmer's tool, the best lever for the intellect, as it were ( Read more... )

In the beginning were the dinosaurs: Erwise, Cello, Mosaic, Lynx and things. Nobody under 40 remembers them and they're all long extinct. Everyone used Mosaic anyway, which was FOSS from the NCSA.

Nobody's heard of the NCSA any more, which is a shame as they also gave the world Apache and without them there wouldn't be a Web. They made something ( Read more... )