John Cartmell wrote:
In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
If you want to stay close to the leading edge you don't in reality get
much choice no matter

With computers the problem now is that a monopoly supplier is telling you what
the leading edge is - and the direction you're travelling in is not your
choice anymore. You get more/faster and forget what you leave behind.

Untrue for many of us, there are still non Monopoly suppliers taking a
fresh look at where the leading edge is and should be. FWIW, RISCOS was
never at any leading edge it was a Johnny come Lately that failed. We
had a few RISCOS advocates at a company I worked at, and bless them they
all thought RISCOS was terribly new just because it was the the first
experience they had with a GUI, overlooking the fact that there had been
GUIs and better developed GUIs long before RISCOS and unsurprisingly
those same GUIs continue to flourish long after RISCOS has died the death.