> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wirt Atmar
> Tom writes:
> [in response to Wirt's web page/response at]
> >  > I've spent the day writing a general reply as a web page at:
> >  >     http://aics-research.com/planb.html
> >
> >  Just playing devil's advocate here :) but I noticed you
> >  sprinkled the phrase "for the next 25 years" [...]
>
> Conspiracy theories abound, eh? :-)
>
> I didn't choose 25 years to coincide with the 2027 date. That
> was just an accident.

As I said, "25 years" is one of those "nice round numbers" (or as you called
it,
> I simply picked a date out of the air as an
> exemplar outer limit
)  so I wasn't reading **too** much into it initially, then it struck me
that (perhaps subconsciously) you chose it because it did indeed "match up"
with the one point in time when we really cannot do anything to further the
HP if, as you said, no emulation/openMPE movement exists at that point
[this is similar to the Radio-Shack models III and IV I have, TRS-DOS 6 only
worked until 1986 or 1988; the internal clock simply "rolled over" at that
point.  You either had to go to a competitor's operating system or get a
"patched" version of TRS-DOS 7 to even boot it after that point...]
>
> But even if those latter conditions never do come true, a
> primary moral [is that] you realistically have 10 to 15 years to decide.
> There's simply no reason to be rushed into your decision.

For that I'll add a "me too" ;)

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