William Chops Westfield wrote:
> Yeah, it's a bit sad.

I don't see anything sad about being able to buy a complex and precision
piece of equipment like a scanner for $80 when only about 10 years ago I
paid more like $900 for a decent scanner.  (It was an HP, back when that
still stood for quality as apposed to being a warning lable as it is today).
What you are seeing is a more efficient system than before, and naturally it
will look different.  The "good old times" of computing and most of the rest
of technology weren't really that good at all.  I'm glad that I don't have
to go back to the days of worrying about every Kbyte or Mbyte on the disk,
or whether we should spend several thousand dollars to add a few Mbytes of
RAM to the engineering computer that was time shared by 20 people and
getting 20 page fault per second.

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