[Tig] St. Diig

[Bob Friesenhahn]

There is something funky about your mail program (or the Tig) since 
the body of your email was sent as a text attachment.

> why do I have a Lustre, Apple Color, a Davinci 2k, and now a 
> Baselight 8 ALL at my disposal, when just a very few short years ago 
> I was spinning knobs on a Davinci Classic - and that's all there 
> was?

These systems will all be "so yesterday" in just a few years. 
Baselight 8 will surely soon be replaced by Baselight 64.  Please get 
with the program. :-)

The progression of computer technology is quite remarkable.  Now that 
CPU clock rates have pretty much peaked (except for IBM's POWER6 
introduced at 4.7 GHz) everything is rapidly going parallel.  Some 
"commodity" processors already come with 8 CPU cores.  Legacy 
architectures are rapidly becoming invalidated and it is time for a 
major re-think of approaches.  This means that there will be an "out 
with the old" and an "in with the new".  Existing DI system vendors 
will need to fight to survive during the transition.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/