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"WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A GOOD C-NOTE COMPUTER" - Mobilis
To end the Microsoft hegemony and realize the potential usefulness of the microcomputer/"personal computer," we need a computer that is: Cheap----Instant-On----Simple----General Purpose. Only India has one, for $200. We (the rest of the world) don't. It will take much more than Linux or open software, much more, as explained below. Today's "personal computer" is not even a true computer, in that it is not a general-purpose device but a proprietary Wintel device. The PC is a corrupted version of the microcomputer vision that we had in the 1970s. I was there. That vision failed when Microsoft hijacked the microcomputer/small computer/home computer as we variously called it. I will show that we have the tools to take back the vision of the computer as a universally available intellectual tool -- take it back from Bill Gates.
To end the Microsoft hegemony and realize the potential usefulness of the microcomputer/"personal computer," we need a computer that is: Cheap----Instant-On----Simple----General Purpose. Only India has one, for $200. We (the rest of the world) don't. It will take much more than Linux or open software, much more, as explained below. Today's "personal computer" is not even a true computer, in that it is not a general-purpose device but a proprietary Wintel device. The PC is a corrupted version of the microcomputer vision that we had in the 1970s. I was there. That vision failed when Microsoft hijacked the microcomputer/small computer/home computer as we variously called it. I will show that we have the tools to take back the vision of the computer as a universally available intellectual tool -- take it back from Bill Gates.
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