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From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: [inbox] malware added in transit 

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 12:02:47 EST, Alerta Redsegura <alerta@...segura.com>  said:

> "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
> Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

Please note that this has gotten out of context in the last 60 years or so.  At the
time, "computer" meant "one of a kind system far beyond the normally available
technology"...

At the time, IBM was already a major manufacturer of mechanical sorting and
tabulating equipment, and what Watson meant was "There's a world market for 5
of what we now call supercomputers".  He'd seen the price tags for the R&D that
was being done, and knew to within a few dollars what that class of high-end
machine would run, and how many sites would have that sort of budget.

60 years later, there's still only a market for 5-20 of these - IBM has sold a
few ASCI-class systems, but only in the single-digits.  And they're happy with
that, because nobody else is selling in double-digits in that arena either.

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