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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:00:02AM +0200, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I don't know how good "exmap" is, but my personal experience is quite |
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> different. Between Fall 1999 and Summer 2007 I had a Dell Dimension |
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> with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of *SYSTEM RAM* (no not the video card). |
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> It was actually quite usable to the very end, with Blackbox WM, and |
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> running a few apps. Meanwhile, KDE (and GNOME for that matter) would |
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> take forever to load and make the system crawl after that, even with 1 |
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> or 2 apps loaded. |
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It's always like that with hardware though. My first computer |
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was a 1987 Mac SE, eight (8) MHz CPU, maxed out to 4 MB RAM. |
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Two 800MB floppies plus an external 250MB HDD (huge for the time). |
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Ran Mac System 6.0.8, I used it for multitrack audio recording and |
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"desktop publishing" (sounds quaint now, huh?) into the '90s. |
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Of course, it had absolutely no security and only a poor illusion of |
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multitasking... :) |
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For the time it was great, but what we have now is much more |
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flexible, capable, and secure. The business of ever-increasng |
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consumption of computing resources is probably unavoidable, barring |
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some major advance in coding. |
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caveat utilitor |
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