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Wide World of Tech #7 - Tech Rants Part 2
Welcome
- Tech News
- Companies still taking tax hits
- Super Bowl Snacks
- Superbowl Ads!
- IT RANTS PART DEUX!!
- 2/3/1986 -Vaporware: According to Computerhistory.org, Time Magazine used the term “vaporware” to talk about the delays Microsoft had delivering Windows. Interestingly, the term was created by a Microsoft engineer in 82, when he responded to a reporter’s question about MFST continuing to develop Xenith, an OS that depended on Open Source software. He said “basically, it’s vaporware”.
- Mark E Dean, IBM Fellow, helped invent the PC (holds 3 of the original 9 IBM patents). Linked article (looks to have been written around 2000) calls him an IBM “idea man”, and his pet project was an electronic tablet.
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By WWoTech TeamWelcome
- Tech News
- Companies still taking tax hits
- Super Bowl Snacks
- Superbowl Ads!
- IT RANTS PART DEUX!!
- 2/3/1986 -Vaporware: According to Computerhistory.org, Time Magazine used the term “vaporware” to talk about the delays Microsoft had delivering Windows. Interestingly, the term was created by a Microsoft engineer in 82, when he responded to a reporter’s question about MFST continuing to develop Xenith, an OS that depended on Open Source software. He said “basically, it’s vaporware”.
- Mark E Dean, IBM Fellow, helped invent the PC (holds 3 of the original 9 IBM patents). Linked article (looks to have been written around 2000) calls him an IBM “idea man”, and his pet project was an electronic tablet.