@vidak What is your favorite forgotten computer idea from Bitsavers?

TIL Grace Hopper predicted #RISC in 1955.

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_univacHopp55_436128/page/n6/mode/1up

"There is little doubt that the development of automatic coding will influence the design of computers.... Instructions added only for the convenience of the programmer will be omitted since the computer, rather than the programmer, will write the detailed coding."

"We are building a culture which can not survive as trivial an incident as Y2K. Once we lose the billion dollar fabrication plants and once we lose the thousand man programming teams how do we rebuild them? Would be bother to rebuild them? Are computers worth enough to demand the social investment that we put into them. It could be a lot simpler. If it were a lot simpler I would have a lot more confidence that the technology would endure into the indefinite future." -- Chuck Moore

http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm