[MD] Quality computing

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:

> 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.

You said "someone." I merely picked up on it. 
 
> 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.

Yes. Stacked up one by one, created individual by individual. You might have
one of those creations to your credit. I hope so. 

> 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 ;-)

All power to the "guy" -- the individual -- who first made it possible to turn on
a computer. :-)



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