DocumentCode
854449
Title
Ideas Ahead of Their Time
Author
Douglis, Fred
Author_Institution
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Volume
12
Issue
5
fYear
2008
Firstpage
4
Lastpage
6
Abstract
When software ideas are ahead of their time, two problems can arise. Either better hardware is needed for the software to be feasible, a new technology isn´t adoptable because there´s no current need for it. EIC Fred Douglis looks at examples of both problems in this installment.
Keywords
Clocks; Educational institutions; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Humans; Isolation technology; Moore´s Law; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers; Sprites (computer); new technologies; process migration; software development; virtual machines; virtualization;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Internet Computing, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1089-7801
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MIC.2008.103
Filename
4620086
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