Re: No more X10 at Radio Shack?

[AZ Nomad <aznomad.2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:02:40 -0500, Robert Green <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:bL-

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>> I've been a developer for quite a while so I'm more than familiar
>> with how X10 works.

>Then you'll know this is the age-old legacy system debate aka the "grumpy
>old man" syndrome.  "We *like* it like that!"  Somewhere in the bowels of
>some naval station, for, airbase or national guard HQ is an application
>still running on one of the million Zenith 8088 DOS PC's the government
>bought back in the 80's.  I've seen it happen.  As everyone else phases in
>new machines, it creates a vast supply of spare parts for ancient PC's and
if only X10 were that sophisticated.

A paper-tape app running on a 4kword PDP-8 might be a better comparison.