29 Oct
2011
29 Oct
'11
9:50 p.m.
On 10/30/2011 12:30 AM, Mouse wrote:
Other things are never equal. There are four reasons
that come to
mind immediately why I'd rather work on my (comparatively) slow SS20
rather than some ridiculously overmuscled "modern" machine.
Specifically, (1) so I can use a good keyboard (I've managed to hack a
peecee X server to take a Sun keyboard on a serial port; it mostly
works but has some annoying issues); (2) I have an aesthetic dislike
for the x86 architecture, and in particular really do not appreciate
wasing a substantial fraction of the silicon (and power) on an
emulation layer that just keeps me away from the full power of the
hardware; (3) working on slow machines keeps me honest, preventing me
from sweeping my coding sins under the rug with hardware oomph; (4) the
SS20 is substantially more reliable hardware.
Obviously, these won't all apply to everyone. Some people, _none_ of
them will apply to. But those are (some of) my reasons.
I wish more developers were like you. Our day-to-day computing
experience would be so much nicer if they were.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA