Re: Damm Small Linux

From: Joerg (notthisjoergsch_at_removethispacbell.net)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:12:21 GMT

Hi Winfield,

>>>Not that I want to sound too critical here but in the old days
>>>(early 90's) you could get by with a lot less RAM than the 16MB
>>>that they proudly announced after the 'Retro Hardware Party'.
>>>
>>>
>
> Yes, I remember very well. But those machines didn't support USB,
> high-density graphics displays, multitasking, etc., etc.
>
>

That is true. But with a (manually) switched parallel port I did pretty
much the same stuff as with USB. Ok, they didn't make memory sticks back
then. Graphics was pretty good, 600*800 or so wasn't a big deal. Even
more but monitors over 15" were very expensive. I was pretty content
with the performance of Tseng Labs chips. Even did a real time
ultrasound display with one although it blew the monitor flyback
transformer when I tried higher resolution.

Multitasking with Windows is often a joke. I am using two PCs or more
simultaneously because one alone is too slow for me. You switch to
another window and then nothing happens for many seconds until a task in
the other one is finished. There were routines for DOS which let you do
the same and also went past the 1MB extender limit. Except that it
didn't crash when I became impatient ;-)

I admit that there has been progress. Just by far not as much as the
marketeers claim there has been. It reminds me of 'modern' cars. A
vehicle containing several dozen micro controllers is not something I'd
trust for a trip across a desert range. There is a reason Bob Pease
stuck with VW Bugs.

>>On a side note, it would be nice if you set your news agent to
>>post at or less than the standard 80 characters width.
>>
>>
>
> I have no control over my newsgroup posting host, but I generally
> manually edit the line length. For example about 70 charactes max
> for that post. What happened when you read it? Did I miss a line?
>
>

Jim meant my post. It's just that I can't do anything about it right
now. I tried four newsreaders and kept the one with the lowest
percentage of posts with messed up line breaks (Mozilla).

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

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