[NewIO-developers] Slashdot Article

[Chris N. <cny...@ne...>]

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/28/1335248

Read the comments. The web as an application platform continues to be hated.

Also, I made this diagram in a presentation recently:

(Apps)                           (Apps)
(MS_DOS)          -----> (Linux, etc)
(PC Hardware)            (PC Hardware)

(Apps)                         (Apps)
(Web)                -----> (NewIO)
(OS)                            (OS)
(PC Hardware)          (PC Hardare)

For a number of years MS-DOS owned the PC world and was ubiquitous.
Eventually people got tired of the shortcomings and moved on to
something better. Except the comparison to the web is even worse than
implied here, because at least MS-DOS was designed to run apps and, of
course, the web never was.

Chris

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