No, 2K is the lowest I've gone. We have a site license at work, but there
is a problem with the key.
I prefer Linux.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, at 9:09pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
You're probably correct. I don't see any benefit for a normal home user to
get a 1.5Ghz Pentium
Early implementations of MS Windows were horrible. 3.1 was the first
version of Windows that had any merit at all.
All GUIs demand much from hardware. All are insatiable.
Brenda A. Bell wrote:
Since the introduction of Win95, absolutely... I was more thinking about
the early 90's when
[ This thread seems to indicate that the 'G'
in GNHLUG actually stands for Geriatric... ]
As for IBM and the 68K -- one of the initial PC specs
was backward CP/M compatibility. The 8088 seemed a
logical choice to fulfill this unfulfilled feature:
everything the 8080 was, and faster, to
The 640 KB limit arose from the original IBM-PC design,
circa 1980.
Since the 8086 didn't even have a memory manager, hardware
needed to be
mapped directly into physical memory space, and IBM thought
640/384 was a
good place to draw the line between software and reserved memory.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just adding a bit more fuel to the fire... ;-)
How rare on the GNHLUG :-) I think this a useful thread of course.
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, at 8:39pm, Tom Buskey wrote:
One advantage Sun ( Apple) have always had over PCs is quality. They
are well built.
With
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, at 9:52pm, Erik Price wrote:
I remember my first Macintosh. It did not come with a hard disk! Just a
floppy drive.
Why, back in my day, we didn't even have keyboards. We had to chisel the
characters into the screen! And we liked it!
;-)
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Ben Scott [EMAIL
