21 Feb
1998
21 Feb
'98
3:41 p.m.
Max Eskin wrote:
I agree wholeheartedly with all you say with one exception. I have a
Pentium 75 overclocked to 100, 16MB ram. It runs Word 95 just fine,
and ran it fine when it had 8MB. Visual Basic and IE4 (I don't use
it regulary, Opera at www.operasoftware.com is much better: 1MB
download!)
work fine too. I can only imagine how Linux would run. But to put
this in a classical context, I agree that old computers are still
useful, but I so wish that they had better displays :)
I defy _anybody_ to say that a "better" display would improve any
Big Five Software arcade games as they ran on the 128x48 monochrome
graphics of the TRS-80 1/3. And I defy anybody to find a better
batch of arcade games, unless you really want to see the blood from
kicked-in faces, a fetish I outgrew 25 or so years ago.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.