What's New is Old

Mark, Wes, and Wes's dad at the Hotel Mac in Pt. Richmond, CA. Sites of Interest: Bully Sticks are NOT tendons or processed meat strips, no!  Bully Sticks are 100% ____ _______.History of the PC bus standards: ISA, Micro Channel, PCI.New eBook reader from Barnes and Noble, the Nook.  Mark thought this was the vaporware Plastic Logic reader that we talked about on a previous show because the announcements for that one months ago said it would be for B&N. It turns out the Plastic Logic Que announcements were true, but their reader will be a competitor to the Nook that will also be displayed in B&N stores and also use their eBook library.Mark's speculations were wrong, Sir Alan Michael Sugar did not invent sugar or the Sugar OS on OLPC devices.  But he did have a part in computer history.Will Linux take over from Windows on the desktop?  Probably not, but it is used a lot on server machines, along with FreeBSD, another open-source OS based on UNIX.How Algol and PL/I relate to other computer languages.Mar