"... 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
- Andrew Tanenbaum arguing with Linus Torvalds in 1992 that Linux was obsolete because it was (at the time) built only for x86, and that x86 was dead.
- Andrew Tanenbaum arguing with Linus Torvalds in 1992 that Linux was obsolete because it was (at the time) built only for x86, and that x86 was dead.
"Writing a new OS only for the 386 in 1991 gets you your second 'F' for this term. But if you do real well on the final exam, you can still pass the course."
Turns out x86 had at least 30 years and counting of life left in it, regardless of what the academics thought...
That's hilarious.
It may also be of note that guesstimates from that era to the early 2000s were usually wildly wrong. Some compiler books from the era say, "Of course, we can count on a [large]% speed increase per-year".
https://www.anandtech.com/show/680/6 Intel (apparently) thought they would have 10GHz by 2005!!!!