OT: Sci-fi (was RE: Ultra-portable terminals)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Mike Schwartz (PC Support) wrote:
>    For example, the revolutionary new Honda Business Jet is a "clean slate"
> design that was originally begun by Honda's jet engine designers who wanted
> to build a test bed for the new engines they were developing.  They threw
> many "unusual" concepts into the plane. For example, they felt there were
> several benefits from mounting the engines on pylons above the wings.  The
> aeronautical engineers laughed at them. 
> 
> http://world.honda.com/news/2006/c060725HondaJet/photo/pages/04.html

05's a better illustration.

And the reason why it wasn't just as easy to mount those engines off
the fuse, like everyone else does... is?

>    Look what Howie started with filePro!  filePro is so different from most
> of the mainstream databases that I'd venture a guess that Howie had only a
> "concept of how a database flies" when he started.  (Note filePro tie in...)

Most of the "mainstream databases" didn't really exist in 1981.

Cheers,
-- jra
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