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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 00:37 -0400
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On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:46:38 -0400, <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:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EVxdT4mOag
>
> And here another hardware video:  
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTOR-1iulC0
>
> Hardware is in. Will there be Forth on Google's Chrome computer stick?

I'm sure they put something in the license to prohibit that.
Oh, sorry, April fools was over a day ago ...  ;-)

It won't be long until compact computers are integrated into
every new TV.  They're already in your smartphone.  I'm still
not sure why we didn't start seeing this five years ago ...


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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