[ale] OT: Rant

[Sparr]

As recently as 4 years ago I put a bunch of machines like that into
service in a volunteer call center, running Damn Small Linux with X
and the Gnome office suite (abiword, gnumeric, etc) and it all ran
great.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today I found on the shelf at my workplace old mid 90's PC. PI 200 MMX/64MB
> RAM Win 98. So let Me recall the old days. I crank it up and voila there is
> the well known desktop. I put floppy with few HTML files in I double click
> on license.htm and 3 seconds later there is Internet Explorer with full
> rendered pages.
>
> I'm not in praise of M$ products.
>
> The question I'm asking myself is how WE managed to degrade in terms of
> speed and hardware requirements that drastically in matter of 15 years. I
> can't probably run modern kernel and X server on this hardware without
> waiting first my lunch to get ready :)
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