If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
"Robert X. Cringely" is the pen name of both technology journalist "Mark Stephens" and a string of writers for a column in InfoWorld, the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG.
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