Chicken or the egg?

Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

Pete

P T wrote:

Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

It seems like the hardware is always a bit ahead of the software, to me.

P T wrote:

Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

Pete


It's both, in a regenerative feedback loop: they 'anticipate' the 'future'
of each other.

P T wrote:

Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

Pete


Btw, the egg came first

Hardware determines the possibilities,
software uses hardware to achieve them.
More like an engine/vehicle relationship than
chicken and egg!


"P T" wrote in message
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Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

Pete

"David Maynard" wrote in message
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P T wrote:

Do you think it's more that cutting edge hardware determines software
development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

Pete


Btw, the egg came first


Proof, David.......:-)

Ed

David Maynard wrote:
P T wrote:

Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

Pete


Btw, the egg came first

Where did the egg come from? The chicken came 1st

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"Time is never wasted when your wasted all the time"

"Mr Mucky" wrote in message
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David Maynard wrote:
P T wrote:

Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?

Pete


Btw, the egg came first

Where did the egg come from? The chicken came 1st

1) The chicken was a mutated form of [whatever bird preceded the chicken].
The egg was laid and the mutant was hatched. The egg came first. Evolution
theory.
2) God got tired of the [whatever bird preceded the chicken] and invented
the chicken. The chicken came first. Creationist theory.
This old, tired argument always comes down to which belief system you
personally choose: science or religion.

Do you think it's more that
cutting edge hardware determines software development,
or do the latest greatest programs guide hardware design?


It seems like the hardware is always a bit ahead of the software, to me.

It has to be. You can't even develop software let alone sell it if it
will not run on any existing system.

Btw, the egg came first


Where did the egg come from? The chicken came 1st

It came from something very much like a chicken, but not a chicken. I
assume he's basing his statement on one apsect of evolutionary
principle. At some point you have a bunch of pre-chickens running
around, and two of them, through chance, produce an offspring (egg) that
will grow up to be a chicken.