Re:All Hardware Must Die (Score 1)

I agree heartily with your premise. I figured out a while back that there wouldn't be any new "amiga" computers. They might bear the brandname, but no matter how much you try to make things backwards compatible, all that does is slow down your progress and make you slower and less competitive. Eventually the old ways have to be abandoned. If you use the amiga's death as an example for others, there will be many vociferous complaints about the end of their architecture with some constantly hoping for a miracle that will allow them to continue working under the old paradigm and others glad that there will be a new paradigm. However, must all software die? Is it tied to the hardware (e.g., portability issues)? Linux was not originally envisioned as lasting this long, much less becoming a market threat to M$. Question is, will it die with windows (which M$ has yet to push onto a new architecture)? I don't pretend to see the future. I personally hope that something better than linux comes along -- it carries a lot of dead weight with its unix heritage. But it certainly outlived predictions of its demise with a predicted fall of the x86 architecture.