Incidentally, your comment is also true of amny
other things. A 50Mhz
'scope made 40 years ago is _still_ a 50MHz 'scope. And I for one would
As a 2GHz pentium 4 core 2 duo will always be. There is something people
never put on the equation: The windows OS is more and more bloated on each
revision, but also has more features. I'll not discuss the usefullness of
these features, but it has more and more indeed.
There is, however, no requirement to keep on upgrading the OS and
applications AFAIK. If the machine was fast enough to do your word
processing, spreadsheets, whatever when it was new, it should be the same
speed today, if you run the same software.
The problem comes, of coruse, when you want to interchange files with
other people who have upgraded. There is no backwards compatibility.
That's another reason I keep well away from proprietary software...
-tony