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Re: Next Big Thing

From torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen)
Newsgroups comp.arch
Subject Re: Next Big Thing
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Date 2011-08-17 10:49 +0200
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kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:

>  I can remember a couple of examples of computer technology being hyped 
> as the next big thing for a year or three which then died. Bubble memory 
> and superconducting computers. I was wondering if there were any
> others 

VLIW, bipolar logic for microprocessors (though these lasted longer than
1-3 years).

> and if anyone thinks that something being discussed now will meet the 
> same fate. 

Probably at least half of the "revolutionary" new technologies being
discussed now will fizz out without ever mecoming mainstream.  That's
the normal order of things in technology: You can't know until you try,
and many times the answer is "it didn't work" or "it wasn't practical".

	Torben

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Next Big Thing kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk - 2011-08-16 09:47 -0500
  Re: Next Big Thing Stephen Fuld <SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> - 2011-08-16 08:24 -0700
    Re: Next Big Thing Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-08-16 08:51 -0700
      Re: Next Big Thing MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-08-16 12:17 -0700
        Re: Next Big Thing "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-16 18:00 -0700
          Re: Next Big Thing Terje Mathisen <"terje.mathisen at tmsw.no"> - 2011-08-17 08:19 +0200
            Re: Next Big Thing Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org> - 2011-08-17 12:40 +0000
            Re: Next Big Thing "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-17 08:20 -0700
              Re: Next Big Thing MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2011-08-17 10:43 -0700
                Re: Next Big Thing nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-08-17 18:19 +0100
                Re: Next Big Thing "Andy \"Krazy\" Glew" <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> - 2011-08-17 23:39 -0700
                Re: Next Big Thing nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-08-18 07:27 +0100
  Re: Next Big Thing torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen) - 2011-08-17 10:49 +0200
    Re: Next Big Thing Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2011-08-17 05:37 -0700
  Re: Next Big Thing mac <acolvin@efunct.com> - 2011-08-18 22:23 +0000
  Re: Next Big Thing Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2011-08-24 20:44 +0200
    Re: Next Big Thing nmm1@cam.ac.uk - 2011-08-24 20:23 +0100

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