On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:00:02AM +0200, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I don't know how good "exmap" is, but my personal experience is quite > different. Between Fall 1999 and Summer 2007 I had a Dell Dimension > with a 450 mhz PIII and 128 megs of *SYSTEM RAM* (no not the video card). > It was actually quite usable to the very end, with Blackbox WM, and > running a few apps. Meanwhile, KDE (and GNOME for that matter) would > take forever to load and make the system crawl after that, even with 1 > or 2 apps loaded. >
It's always like that with hardware though. My first computer was a 1987 Mac SE, eight (8) MHz CPU, maxed out to 4 MB RAM. Two 800MB floppies plus an external 250MB HDD (huge for the time). Ran Mac System 6.0.8, I used it for multitrack audio recording and "desktop publishing" (sounds quaint now, huh?) into the '90s. Of course, it had absolutely no security and only a poor illusion of multitasking... :) For the time it was great, but what we have now is much more flexible, capable, and secure. The business of ever-increasng consumption of computing resources is probably unavoidable, barring some major advance in coding. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
