3,400 karma · joined December 1, 2018
Modes have to evolve and the amateur radio community needs to do more to educate. The harrumphs of the old-timers can be discouraging, but amateur radio needs to push through that in order to stay current.
Chinese opportunists can no longer get away with it in China, so they are exploiting nearby developing nations to do their dirty work.
Failed to beat Windows as a desktop or server OS, but succeeded in other ways. It was widely used as an embedded OS for ATMs and distributed as a support software for IBM mainframes.
Did it fail because it is no longer around? (Cf. other operating systems such as IRIX or Solaris, which is basically dead now, but strong for a time) Or because it did not fulfill a certain purpose--though it did fulfill another?
When I started communicating locally, my thrill was squashed by uninterested complaining old men who thought my equipment was not expensive enough.
But radio theory and engineering, that's great stuff worth learning.