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Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop?

From "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop?
Date 2015-04-03 00:36 -0400
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On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:04:11 -0400, rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/2/2015 2:46 PM, visualforth@rocketmail.com wrote:

>> Times are changing.
>>
>> April 1, 2015: Google announced a USB stick that plugs in to any  
>> display to create a computer. It needs a TV screen and a Bluetooth  
>> keyboard to be complete:
>>
>> And here another hardware video:  
>> Hardware is in. Will there be Forth on Google's Chrome computer stick?
>
> I fail to see the significance of this computer on a stick.

Google.

That's the significance.

$66 billion in revenue.
$64 billion in cash.

Almost all others who push novelty product like this are
small fry, except Apple.


Rod Pemberton

-- 
Cars kill more people than guns in the U.S.
Yet, no one is trying to take away your car.

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Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2015-04-02 11:46 -0700
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 15:04 -0400
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-03 00:36 -0400
      Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:46 -0400
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 12:09 -0700
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 12:48 -0700
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 18:08 -0400
      Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-02 12:11 -1000
        Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 17:04 -0700
          Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 20:29 -0400
            Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 17:47 -0700
            Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-02 15:27 -1000
              Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:19 -0400
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-02 18:35 -1000
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:45 -0400
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-02 23:56 -0700
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 04:07 -0400
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-03 08:44 +0000
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-03 00:37 -0400
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-02 21:46 -0700
      Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 22:18 -0700
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:49 -0400
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 17:39 -0700

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