On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 13:31:08 +0200
Adam Borowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 11:09:47AM +0100, ael wrote:
> You can get new 68080 chips, too.
Ah, sarcasm involving the Appeal to Novelty fallacy. Remind me again,
where have I heard that before?
[snip]
> What I'm arguing here, though, is that new development shouldn't
> _optimize_ for musty old hardware. For example, if I had the
> non-trivial amount of tuits it would take to reimplement the
> installer, it'd have a minimal set of debs for the base system
> (unless you download an off-line big image), use a writeable
> filesystem instead of iso9660,
As an elder in the Church of the Known State, I appreciate that what's
on the iso9660 is exactly what I put on it: Nothing more, nothing less.
For the same religious reasons, I prefer a data storage that's plainly
marked as to what it is, without using a microscope to read it.
SteveT
Steve Litt
April 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques
of the Successful Technologist
http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques
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