6 Aug
2006
6 Aug
'06
10:11 a.m.
On Saturday 05 August 2006 09:01 pm, Dave McGuire wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Welcome to the PC world...where something becomes obsolete just
because something newer starts shipping!
Remember what P.T. Barnum said about suckers being born every minute?
Yeah, well...
I still have all of my CP/M boxes. Although I don't use 'em all that much
these days.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I
replaced this with another aging machine - a PIII running at 500Mhz,
which only uses 100Watts more - but I can certainly get a lot more out
of it. So that old machine certainly cost me more to run than the new
one in terms of performance for electricity used. I certainly don't
need a 2Ghz AMD64 with 4GB of RAM for use as a router. Today. In 5
years from now, my desktop will be very likely be my router.
A P-III is "an aging machine"?