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From: alerta at redsegura.com (Alerta Redsegura)
Subject: [inbox] malware added in transit 

Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu said:

>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...

We must remember that Thomas Watson Sr. was not an engineer but a marketer:
he did not foresee the potential of computers, as he did not see any
commercial future in xerography, for instance, passing up a chance to
acquire the relevant patents.

IBM got into the computer industry only after Thomas Watson Jr. took over as
IMB?s CEO in 1952 with a different vision from his father's, taking the
company to the results we know today.

>...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.

Take a look at www.top500.org.

Regards,

I?igo Koch
redsegura.com