19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
3:21 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 12:34:06PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
On April 19, John Allain wrote:
So everyone's complaining about PeeCees, but some people are still
using them. THIS is what I don't understand.
It's the most common and usually most affordable type of machine. But
put some usable OS (i.e. one of the free UNIX systems) on it and you
have a usable system.
Regards,
Alex.
--
We're gonna be body guards for teen rock-stars. Wouldn't the cause of freedom
be better served if we killed them instead?
-- Schlock from the ''Schlock Mercenary'' comic
strip
Why do
people use PeeCees, again? Pathetic, indeed.
I encoded some family geneology into set of frame HTML
pages once. It turned out to be something line 600 small html
files, 300 KBytes or so. When I went to put it on a floppy, it
took over 30 Minutes to write!
Pathetique!