Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Nightfox
From : Moondog
Date : Wed May 11 2022 00:25:00

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 10 2022 08:59 am

 >   Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
 >   By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Tue May 10 2022 06:45 am
 > 
 >  PF> (aside: I was watching old episodes of "Computer Chronicles", and
 >  PF> they talked about, if you had an "internet TV", they could "blast"
 >  PF> FOUR MEGABYTES work of programs to you, in less than 2 minutes! My,
 >  PF> how far we've come...)
 > 
 > Yeah, we've come a long way.
 > I think I might have seen a couple episodes of that show when I was a kid, b
 > sode where they talked about buying a Mac vs. a PC, etc.).
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 

It use dto air on the local PBS station back in the mid yo late 80's.  I
recall one where they had two companies reviewing their product, and the
Korean based firm's sales rep said they were experimenting with joining severa 
l lcd panels to form larger panels.  Before then LCD panels were long,
slender panels cpable of maybe 80x10 rows.  The sales guy was estatic, sying
active matrix color was right around the corner, and large high definition
TV's will put CRT's out of business.  The other sales guy laughed, and stated
a bunch of stats about viewing angle, latency in twist rate of the crystals,
and the computing power needed to multiplex all these little panels into one
larger one.  The slaes guy form the Korean company made a remark about a
difference in US and Asian engineering investment.  The main difference was
regarding time span before maturity versus price.  Us firms were looking at
3-5 years maturity versus what was possible in 10+ years.

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