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Digging the curve I just heard from Kevin Werbach that his Release 1.0 weblog has morphed into The Conversation Continues. While the old site said "under construction," this one invites an opposite description, if that makes sense. "Under completion" comes to mind. Nothing living is ever complete, of course, which is why my epitaph will read "Hey, I was almost finished." (Indeed, that is my wish. Or the one I'm still working on.) As it happened I had lunch last week in New York with Kevin and two Main Dudes from Onclave, Andrew Peloso and Steve Hatch (good guys who are doing "some cool things around collaborative authoring and syndication"). And I had just pulled out their business cards when I got the email from Kevin. Coincidence? Here are several more:
By the way, I've been going to PC Forum since the 80s and subscribing to Release 1.0 for at least as long. In fact, after regrettable lapse that I hate to admit, I just renewed. And hey, I just found this nugget from the transcript of the 1989 PC Forum: a talk titled "The Platform of the Future: Why UNIX beats DOS." Some excerpts: "MS-DOS has some bad limitations. Most operating systems that compete with MS-DOS will exploit those limitations. The file system is limited. You work with one application at a time because of the architecture. It supports only 640K of memory... UNIX solves all those problems and has some real benefits. It's portable. It's been around. It's been used in a lot of different applications. There i s a strong set of multi-user applications.... Because you can get the source code in UNIX, it's customizable... "Over time... everything will have POSIX, everything will have threads, everything will have dynamic linking, everything will be cool. You'll have the source code of everything out at the universities, so people can play around with it... "Our role in the market is to continue to be involved in UNIX. We made a lot of money on UNIX which is more than you can say for a lot of companies in the UNIX market. [Laughter.]" The author? William H. Gates III.
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