26 Nov
2009
26 Nov
'09
4:48 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
Well, here's an idle suggestion:
How about a separate list for vintage PCs (possibly and Macs, but
LowEndMac.com runs some pretty good lists for those, so I don't see
the need.)
I find some of the 1980s PC kit pretty interesting - a profusion of
buses, some quite weird; lots of odd graphics standards; the
convolutions necessary to keep enough RAM free on 386s
under DOS; Windows when it was small and fast, DESQview and DR-GEM;
odd OSs such as CCP/M, C/DOS, DOS+, Xenix and GeoWorks Ensemble; the
gorgeous clean design of IBM PS/2 machines and their ridiculous
pricetags. All sorts of fun (FSVO "fun") and the hardware is getting
very rare and hard to find these days. 486s are going that way fast,
too.
Pentium boxes are still new enough that some poor buggers use them
daily, so that's not "classic".
We have ClassicCmpTalk and ClassicCmpTech - how about ClassicPCTalk or
ClassicCmpX86? For people for whom it's of no interest, they can just
resign...
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I was thinking recently, and I know that the
general threshold for
discussion on this list is ten years, but is that enough?
Know what really grates on me? ?When someone asks such a STUPID question.
How can anyone in his right mind seriously think, in 2009, that the
so-called "ten year rule" still applies here? ?(Put another way, dude, where
have you been for the past few years!? ?Have you not noticed that a., this
has been discussed to death, and b., it's incredibly freaking obvious that
Windows Friggin' 98 is not frigging on-topic here!?!?!?)
The so-called ten-year-rule, and anyone who insanely thinks the "rule"
itself is not obsolete, can kiss my ass. ?Thank you, come again.
What's on-topic: Almost anything pre-186, and a few non-mainstream
exceptions after that.
I shall now end my reply with a highly sophisticated opinion:
Duh!