3 Mar
2005
3 Mar
'05
8:37 p.m.
David H. Barr wrote:
Sorry, to me (sole IT provider for a nonprofit
organization) a 5 year
old computer running winXP is next years technology. MS-DOS 6.2(2) /
Windows 3.1(1) would have been about as far as I can stand having to
listen on a "classic" mailing list / forum / usenet group, and even
that's pushing it to some extent.
Hopefully he won't come back in a few years and gloat how he got a complete
Apple Lisa in original box with manuals+media for $20 at a yard sale or
something :-)
It just seemed a bit hypocritical (not just you, all the harsh replies),
especially considering we tackle "new software on old hardware" topics all the
time (TCP stack for old micros, etc.)
Okay, back to my 8088 assembler optimization...
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