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hypernova:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on December 11, 2008, 06:30:34 am ---
"No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful"  ;D


"Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you"  that i didnt inhale  :D

edit: reading that letter though, i wonder about its authenticity. surely even a teacher in texas can spell 'conference' ?

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My sister-in-law has a degree in teaching.  And she's an atrocious speller.  I'm surprised there aren't MORE typos in that letter.  Many teachers are morons, and shouldn't be teaching.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: HarumaN on December 12, 2008, 01:35:26 pm ---^^ proof positive that the Atkins diet damages your brain ^^

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And your digestive system.

 :laugh2:


--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 12, 2008, 01:37:37 pm ---
Yep.  It is not the home market driving processor development.  It's the enterprise market.  The home market is a secondary benefit to manufacturers.

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Enterprise was not a driving force in those days Chad, not as much as it is now.  But it did have an knock on effect on pricing, as most corporations were still using VAX Pathworks and Data General mainframes.  Heck most of the Windows 3.x were used for mainframe access anyway.


--- Quote from: Justin Z on December 12, 2008, 02:29:08 pm ---If by "using 486 PCs" you mean we might have software that is efficient enough to run fine on 486s so there would be no need for faster hardware, then I guess I see what you're saying, lol

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Yeah if that efficient software didn't have such an issue with upkeep.  I still have a 486 kicking about with NT4 on it with Slackware Linux.  Both still suitable for today's needs, yet we have to muddy the water with this multimedia crap and poorly written software.  ::)

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: ark_ader on December 13, 2008, 04:55:26 pm ---Enterprise was not a driving force in those days Chad, not as much as it is now.  But it did have an knock on effect on pricing, as most corporations were still using VAX Pathworks and Data General mainframes.  Heck most of the Windows 3.x were used for mainframe access anyway.

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Not in the X86 world... but in the Sun/UNIX world, which is where all of the major progress at that time was made, that is where it happened.  Sun workstations, Sparcs, etc. 

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: hypernova on December 13, 2008, 01:23:47 pm ---

My sister-in-law has a degree in teaching.  And she's an atrocious speller.  I'm surprised there aren't MORE typos in that letter.  Many teachers are morons, and shouldn't be teaching.

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thats a hell of a thing to say about your sister, hyper! did she do her degree in texas, perhaps   :D

my sister is a teacher too. she can spell. she got her degree in australia  ;D

lkench:

--- Quote from: Justin Z on December 12, 2008, 02:29:08 pm ---If by "using 486 PCs" you mean we might have software that is efficient enough to run fine on 486s so there would be no need for faster hardware, then I guess I see what you're saying, lol

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Yeah if that efficient software didn't have such an issue with upkeep.  I still have a 486 kicking about with NT4 on it with Slackware Linux.  Both still suitable for today's needs, yet we have to muddy the water with this multimedia crap and poorly written software.  ::)
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Bah, I seem to remember someone saying, how could we ever need any more than 640K of memory?

It's all prodify's fault(heck, we could probably go all the way back to compuserve if we wanted to) - letting all the idiots on to our cool internet and then some joker came up with this crazy World Wide Web - with all it's fancy color movie pictures with synchronized sound.  Edlin.com was so much better than notepad.exe - if you haven't got it yet, the functionality we demand(and expect) today, requires more processing power.  If all computers had to do today still was just count votes, the Univac would still be fine, but someone decided computers didn't have to take up entire floors of buildings and could do a lot more interesting things than just count votes or calculate missile trajectories...stupid IBM for wanting to make computers "personal"  Say what you want about how inelegantly designedand full of bugs Windows is, but  it sure has made computers easier to use and more accessible to everyone.  Can you imagine the average grandparent trying to view pictures of thier grandkids in an email using Linux?
ok I'm done for now
-lkench
 PS, if anyone is from the st louis,MO area, I used to run a tiny BBS called The Electric Lamp... it was a 286 running WWIV on two 10MB hard drives(one if them washooked up RLL and formatted out closer to 15 if I remember right)....needless to say, I was never big into warez or pr0n back then....


-lkench

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