From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays) Subject: Re: NT vs Linux (was: Re: truth or dare) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 16:07:14 GMT
In article <1993Jul9.105612.7134@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, calica@cae.wisc.edu (Carlo James Calica) writes:
|> In article <SCT.93Jul9160246@ascrib.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
|> >
|> >> Does anyone out there remember the kinds of things that used to be
|> >> accomplished back in the days of the Commodore 64, Apple ][, etc?
|> >> Remember when we only had 64K in the whole machine? Remember when
|> >> a processor ran at a whopping 1MHz? Anyone remember 88K floppies?
|> >
|> >You had it lucky, mate. When I were a lad, we had to make do with a
|> >ZX81 with 1K of ram shared between the (barely) operating system,
|> >video buffer and applications - and you could run Chess on it. Now
|> >*that* is an achievement.
|> >
|> Oh no here we go.... Well I remember the days before punch cards where you
|> had to program your computer with switches. Ahh those were the days. :-)
Punch cards?!
What luxury!
Try patch cords...
-- Kirk Hays - NRA Life, seventh generation. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) [I do not speak for Intel, not being an officer of the corporation.]