On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Alex Walters <tritium-list@sdamon.com> wrote:
Just out of curiosity, I did a little experiment. I explained this thread to my mother. My mother is a wonderful woman, but she wouldn't know a byte from a bite. I explained it as follows:
"There is a tool that can make software run on a lot of different computers, but only if you build it for an ancient computer. The tool is a little complicated - you have to learn how to get it and to use it with any success. The people who make it are considering changing the way they name it. The new naming scheme is the bare minimum year the computer running the code can be from.
I think the problem is that the whole discussion turns on whether we should care about the fact that it's more complicated than the last sentence would suggest. Cheers, Matthew