From: O'Regan, Emlyn (Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 22:19:29 MDT
Brian wrote:
> I use an ole 386/sx20 machine with DOS 5.00.409c beta and WIN 3.1
> to do mail with. I telnet to the corporate firewall, then to the
> WELL in Calif and then to the world. I read mail with the shareware
> utility LIST, and edit with WordPerfect 5.1.
>
This is not the first time that I've seen people admitting that the
technology they are
using to talk on the net is pretty aged. This seems to happen amongst
technophiles
of all stripes; someone mentions their new Pentium III with 5 billion meg of
ram, etc
and up jumps the response "What do you need all that for; I'm doing full
realtime
3D texture mapped rendering on my old XT, I use a graphical HP calculator
from
the late 80s to connect to the 'net.
Hands up - who is still running their old 486s or earlier. Bonus marks for
comments
such as "and after I set it up PROPERLY it runs better than my friends'
Pentium III
which he just bought last week".
I'm really wondering if this is going to continue for us so-called
"future-ophiles"; I
can just imagine people trying to run their general nano-assembler from "the
pentium
I've had since the dark ages - yes, it is pre-millenium, and if you
configure it right it's
still up there with the slower quantum boxes people are running these days.
Talk
about cracking a nut with a sledgehammer."
Emlyn
Tip of the day: When faced with various choices for cryo, don't choose the
older
technology "because you just don't need all those bells and whistles".
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