The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing?

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 4, 2003 @07:44AM from the this-time-it's-perfect dept.

Miss Muis writes "After reading once again that Moore's Law will become obsolete, I amused myself thinking back to all the predictions, absolutes and impossibles in computing that have been surpassed with ease. In the late 80s I remember it being a well regarded popular 'fact' that 100MHz was the absolute limit for the speed of a CPU. Not too many years later I remember much discussion about hard drives for personal computers being physically unable to go much higher than 1GB. Let's not forget "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers" from the chairman of IBM in 1943, and of course 'Apple is dying...' (for the past 25 years). What are your favorite beliefs-turned-on-their-heads in the history of computing?"

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Re:How about... by musikit · 2003-12-04 08:14 · Score: 1, Redundant

what exactly about this is an assumption

that the news is only for nerds?

or that it is stuff that matters?
Here's something Bill Gates actually said by Smallpond · 2003-12-04 09:01 · Score: 2, Redundant

"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."

-- Bill Gates
November 1987
Foreword to OS/2 Programmer's Guide
by Ed Iacobucci
ISBN 0-07-881300-X