File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 366


From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH:Gambling chips
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:56:17 -0600 (CST)


Russ writes:

>  "We wouldn't have the foggiest idea what to do with a billion transistors
> right now, except to put more memory in a chip and speed it up. But as far
> as adding functionality, we don't know what can be done."

Jim Coates, who writes the computer columns for the Chicago Tribune, 
remarked recently that the chip has not been invented that Bill
Gates cannot slow down with "features."

Actually, the addition of little needed features that eat up immense
chunks of memory and thereby demanding faster chips seems to be the
equivalent in computers of planned obsolescence.

Carrol



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