steveH
2011-10-06 12:00:58
No, he didn’t.
He focused on one single aspect of technology, ignoring the fact that without a lot of work by people beyond the hardware and software developers, including visionaries of variable capability, none of the nifty internals would benefit the vast majority of customers and users.
How many end users actually computers and other devices made by Intel or AMD? They’re important, and critical for the products that use them. But they’re not enough on their own.
If he was right, then everyone would be making and using Heathkits, or rolling their own from individual components. Which I’ve done, and it was lots of fun at the time, if not particularly useful for day to day work.
