[MD] Quality computing

[ian glendinning]

I think the point Platt,

is no so much the someone who "invented" e-mail ... that's a whole
series of evolving inventions, on top of many, many layers of clever
inventions.

Most of those layers are (quite rightly) invisible and irrelevant (in
any day to day sense) to the unsuspecting user. Invisible, irrelevant
or not, we depend every day on that whole stack of creativity.

Furthermore the guy that invented that "bootstrap" in machine code on
the bare silicon (or a box of diode valves more likely), would never
have had anything remotely like e-mail on his mind at the time. He
probably thought, like Frankenstein, he was creating life itself, and
would be very disappointed to see e-mail as the culmination of his
creativity to date ;-)

Ian

On 3/21/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
>
> > Marvel at the idea that someone worked out how to create the dynamic
> > experience of an e-mail programme "running" on a dead piece of etched
> > silicon, with no moving parts.
>
> Indeed I do marvel at the individual "someone" who invented e-mail. :-)
>
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