On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 11:56:55 -0600, "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:29:54 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Feb 02 22:23:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (howard schwartz) >> wrote: >>> I must admit the hardest part for me of abandoning Dos, is losing >>> a whole lot of programs I love that will never be ported to Linux, and >>> which I will never try to emulate by writing my own source code for. >> There's no reason to abandon programs you love. Just keep on >> using them! If I could get what I want in DOS, I'd just keep >> using DOS. >> But look five years down the road when 500 MHz systems with 40 gig >> Some people will still use DOS. My brother subscribes to magazine >> the extll the virtues of vacuum tube sound equipment and vinyl >> recordings. Its a little niche group of diehard enthusiasts. >> Very small, but active enough to have magazines and specialty >> dealers. >> Sam Ewalt In developping a high quality receiver for the 40m-amateurband (this band is very jammed in Europe due to nearby 41m-broadcast band) a valve is better performing as first mixer than any semiconductor I tried. So in certain situations the 'old' is doing a better job. The same with DOS... e.g. e-mail in Arachne is quicker, easier and no virus nonsense (until now). Bastiaan > Sam; Just a note. The whole reason I am taking computers and electronics > at school is to be able to work on musical equipment. Tubes are very > much in use in this field, from guitar amps and microphones, to DSP, > sound boards and recording gear. To the sensitive and specialized ear > of many musicians, the even harmonic sound wave of tube analog is much > more pleasant and musical, than the dry, crispy, dead sound of the odd > harmonic square wave that digital produces. I could not understand when > CD's came out why they had great dynamic bandwidth, but sounded like crap > until I understood that little fact. This is especially true for Blues > and Rock musicians who use a clipped wave distortion. In most High end > musical equipment you will find vacuum tube, linear, and digital > electronics all integrated together. Almost any music you hear on the > radio or recorded is run thru a tube! Many companies who don't understand > this have gone down the tubes. Most high paid professional guitarists are > using tube amps. Computers have drastically changed the production and > recording of music, but tube technology is advancing rapidly also. > Rob: > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
