From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   MitchAlsup  schrieb:   
   > environment evolution   
   >   
   >>  There seems to be a lot more known good/bad approaches making   
   >> me think that the lifetime of newer designs could be longer.   
   >   
   > Yes, but the people making the decisions are still to young to have   
   > the history needed to make better decisions.   
   >   
   > The graduates of major universities go right out and start designing   
   > without being exposed to "enough" of the disease of computer architecture   
   > to be in a position to understand why feature.X of arch.Y was bad overall,   
   > or why feature.X of architecture.Y was not enough to save it.   
   >   
   > Each generation reaches employment after university at about the same   
   > level as we did when we invented RISC.   
      
   I recently heard that CS graduates from ETH Zürich had heard about   
   pipelines, but thought it was fetch-decode-execute.   
      
   They also did not know about DEC or the VAX.  Sic transit gloria   
   mundi...  Apparently, the most ancient computer history they heard   
   about was Nehalem.   
      
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