Neat thread. ast to Linus's response to ast's initial post: > Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running

Neat thread. ast to Linus's response to ast's initial post: > Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5. It's interesting how computer science intellectuals of this era "knew" that "superior" chipsets would draw everyone to things like Sun's Sparcstation instead of plain ol' IBM x86 machines. Most interesting is being able to read their assertions, verbatim, from old Usenet posts hosted on a (presumably Linux) server farm "in the cloud" from a laptop running Linux x86-64 machine not physically connected to a network in any fashion--forget the "WD ethernet card!"