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ark_ader:

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--- 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


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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I remember AOL when it was a BBS.  Prodigy was very close to being an efficient use of bandwidth in the early 1990s.  And I had a 8088-12 with two MFM drives daisy chained 5mb full height and one 5 mb RLL Full height.

Those suckers were heavy, all 8 bit ISAs.  Ripped the floppy drive bays out of the desktop case.  It was the business.  Now most of my pics from my camera are 5mb.... :'(

One thing I can forget was building those 8088 and 286 clones from the back of my shop and selling them to clients.  The cuts I got from those crap cases wasn't funny, and those slices cannot be stitched either.   :o

Blood and motherboards do not mix.  ;D

FrizzleFried:
I've tinkered with Linux.  When they have the software base of Windows (or even close to it),  I'll budge...until then,  it seems like a fun toy to play with but that's about it.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 19, 2008, 07:25:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on December 19, 2008, 04:21:41 pm ---I've tinkered with Linux.  When they have the software base of Windows (or even close to it),  I'll budge...until then,  it seems like a fun toy to play with but that's about it.



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That being said... 9 years ago, I played with QNX and was blown away by how much software you could cram onto a floppy disk.  I keep thinking I might grab one of those EEE notebooks and toss Ubuntu on it just to play around.





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didnt they first come out with ubuntu?

polaris:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on December 20, 2008, 11:23:54 am ---
--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 19, 2008, 07:25:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on December 19, 2008, 04:21:41 pm ---I've tinkered with Linux.  When they have the software base of Windows (or even close to it),  I'll budge...until then,  it seems like a fun toy to play with but that's about it.



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That being said... 9 years ago, I played with QNX and was blown away by how much software you could cram onto a floppy disk.  I keep thinking I might grab one of those EEE notebooks and toss Ubuntu on it just to play around.





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didnt they first come out with ubuntu?

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my 2 didn't, its xandros i think, i've tried ubuntu eee and was a bit disappointed as it didn't have wireless support but there's a new release due in january.
jim id certainly recommend them i think they're great, and there's some good support online from users, i do think the community is getting diluted because of the different versions of eee's and nuances between them but still lots of third party help out there.

boykster:
Linux on the desktop will unlikely ever supplant windoze as the primary OS, but as a server OS, it's a powerhouse.  And as for processing power, there are many more driving factors behind the need for increased processing power than just M$ bloated OS code.  I run systems at work that are 99.9% cpu bound 24/7 and these are dual processor quad core 64bit athlon cpu's.....on a 486 platform I'd need 100 times the number of servers to run the same operations, and there's no way they could support the 32gigs of ram these servers have.

 :dunno

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