Sam Ewalt wrote: . > Isn't there a point at which the advantage of small, fast and . > efficient is outdone by the speed and capacity of the hardware?
. > For instance, I just bought and soon will take home a refurbished . > computer with a 500 Mhz CPU, 20 gig hd and 128 megs of RAM. This . > "obsolete" system was dirt cheap. Isn't it also true that as processors become more powerful (and faster) that Winmodems, Winprinters, Winperipherals tap into that increased power and you essentially end up with a processor with residual power less than the power of the previous family of processors. The HP 1000 printer does not provide drivers for its use, but relies on the "excess" power of the CPU to do its printing. I tried to do some multi-tasking with a 300 MHz cpu on a Windoze computer and I swear that it was slower than when I did multi-tasking on a 33 MHz cpu machine using DESQview. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona
