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by scroot
2520 days ago
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> The "smartphone" is essentially a small "glass TTY", rather than personal computer in the '80s sense. We now have a generation or two that completely missed this era, and, worse, might be uninterested in the history. The idea that you would have a ubiquitous, portable, always-on personal computing device and that -- at least from the perspective of people who are knowledgeable of about this history -- you would put a Unix on it is completely crazy. It is, as you say, an expensive and sleek teletype emulator |
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