21 Dec
2022
21 Dec
'22
11:57 a.m.
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On 21 Dec 2022, at 12:44, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
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Windows 2003 and XP is about as obsolete now as the IBM PC was in 1995.
Probably more so. XP is popular on Vogons but I'm sure considerably less
then 5% of computers actually host it.
There's also the issue of beating a dead horse. There will always and
forever (and forever...) be some esoteric issue to discuss about some
bizzare and mostly unknown 8 bit system that 3 people on the whole of
planet earth own (now not to brag, but chances are there are a dozen or
less Northstar Dimension owners (never mind users) out there. And I'm
proud to be 1). Who am I going to discuss that with?? And a larger issue
is what? An even larger issue is why? Well I got plans ...
Lists of this sort are about tech and used by people who love it. Windows
11 is not germain to these conversations. But what about, and I'm just
putting this out there, making pre UEFI shtuff -on-? I don't even know
how I personally feel about such a delineation. But the suggestion is
there. Nostalgic weirdos like older tech. Yes often dang old. Now a
Thinkpad T60p doesn't exactly seem dang old. But it's pretty much dang
obsolete (can't remember what sort of firmware it has but the processor,
though 64 bit, is part of that hazy quasi transitional grouping that had
more similarities to a 32 bit chip). On Tuesday, December 20, 2022,
10:05:06 PM EST, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022, Chris via cctalk wrote:
It seems that the previous list owner lost interest in this mailing list
and turfed us over to someone else who doesn't really say anything some
time ago. At least I think that's what happened. Nobody really said
anything.
So, can someone enlighten me on how to stop receiving mail from the list
until the holidays and/or this discussion are over under the new regime?
Regards,
Peter Coghlan Well there doesn't seem to be a great deal of
activity these days, I has
thought the suggestion about relaxing the rules might need discussing.
I know there are people still using Windows 2003 puters, or a near
equivalent based on XP? But that's entirely irrelevant, as I'm quite
sure you could find someone out there still utilizing an 8088/286/386.
Of course that's the discretion of the sysop. As it stands there's at
least 1 opinion for every ahole attached to the person who types on this
board. Whateber. The way I see it dang obsolete shouldd be open for
discussion.
To summarize: "On-Topic" == "Dang obsolete"