2011/4/11, Michael B. Brutman <mbbrut...@brutman.com>: Oh, I forgot to address this one:
> Most of us like this progress. While I do enjoy tinkering with my old > hardware, it's not usable for things that most people need to do today. No, you're wrong; it's not usable for bloated software of today, not for the things that most people do: #v+ "Check out the results! For the functions that people use most often, the 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 tests to 8! Out of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the time! Including a jaw-dropping 52 second whipping of the AMD from the time the Power button is pushed to the time the Desktop is up and useable. [..] ...it can be stated that for the majority of simple office uses, the massive advances in technology in the past two decades have brought zero advance in productivity". #v- http://tinyurl.com/2hxfjd -- regards, Zbigniew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
