19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
7:34 a.m.
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.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big."
St. Petersburg, FL -Den
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! 
19 Apr
19 Apr
11:21 a.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! 
20 Apr
20 Apr
11:12 a.m.
New subject: OT: Re: Guys take a look at this qbus cpu board on Ebay :-)
On 19 Apr, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
[PeeCee]
But put some usable OS (i.e. one of the free UNIX
systems) on it
and you have a usable system.
NACK. At work I have a P III 650, 256MB RAM, 30GB
HDD, Linux 2.4. During
disk IO this *(#%$!@%*& feels slower than a MV III with 4.3BSD-Tahoe.
Last October I purchased an Alpha for ~500 EUR. This is affordable.
Fife jears old, 500MHz EV56 CPU, 192 MB RAM (meanwhile 640MB), 4GB HDD
(SCSI!), Tru64 UNIX. Runns circles around a much newer, "better, bigger,
faster" PeeCee when it has to do IO.
Not to talk about the absence of the typical PeeCee idiosyncrasys and
the much higher hardware quality. It "Just Runs Forever" (C) (R) (TM).
Only my 0.01 EUR.
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
19 Apr
19 Apr
4:19 p.m.
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!
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