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From the article: _____ The first cars were: - Loud and unreliable - Expensive and hard to repair - Starved for fuel in a world with no gas stations - Uns
by nailer 1y ago
From the article:
_____
The first cars were:
- Loud and unreliable
- Expensive and hard to repair
- Starved for fuel in a world with no gas stations
- Unsuitable for the dirt roads of rural America
_____
Reminds me of Linux in the late 90s. Talking to Solaris, HPUX or NT4 advocates, many were sure Linux was not going to succeed because:
- It didn't support multiple processors
- There was nobody to pay for commercial support
- It didn't support the POSIX standard
- WillAdams 1y ago>- Starved for fuel in a world with no gas stations Actually, gasoline was readily available in its rôle as fuel for farm and other equipment, and as a bottled cleaning product sold at drug stores and the like. >- Unsuitable for the dirt roads of rural America but the process of improving roads for the new-fangled bicycle was well underway.
- bpt3 1y agoLinux won on cost once it was "good enough". AI isn't free (by any definition of free) and is a long way away from "good enough" to be a general replacement for the status quo in a lot of domains. The areas where it does make sense to use, it's been in use for years, if not longer, without anyone screaming from the rooftops about it.
- nailer 1y agoBy the time Linux won it was better - by 2003 you could take a workload that took eight hours on some ridiculous Sun machine and run it in 40 minutes on a Xeon box.