ScottFree interpreter for Pocket PC

[Tony Duell]

> I think you're wrong.  Look at how far we've come and how fast.
> 
> 1950 -> 1960 Major leaps in computing technology
> 1960 -> 1970 Much change, but not as much as the previous decade
> 1970 -> 1980 Everything gets smaller, cheaper, and on a single chip
> 1980 -> 1990 Refinement of what came out in the 1970s
> 1990 -> 2000 PC dreck
> 
> The timeline is getting compressed.  Stuff that took 10-20 years to be
> considered "ancient" or even "retro" is now only taking 5-10.

I see it the other way. A lot changed between, say 1960 and 1970. The 
older machines were still useful and in use in 1970, but the then-current 
machines were quite different.

Whereas now, all that's happening is the clock rate is going up. OK, 
that's something of an oversimplfication, but not much :-). Todays PC and 
a PC of 5 years ago are still the same, broken, design.

So today's stuff will take longer to become classic, simply because it's 
not reallyt changing so fast.

-tony