[ale] Party like it is 1995

[Chris Fowler]

> From: "maddog at li.org" <jonhall80 at comcast.net>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 6:14:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Party like it is 1995

> All,

> I was cleaning out my house the other day, and I found some CDE balsa airplanes
> that were made to be swag for some show.

> Likewise I think I still have the complete set of CDE standards and programming
> manuals somewhere in my library.

> Of course when you use CDE, please remember what it was like to "party like it
> is 1995". While the monitors may have been all of 21" from corner to corner,
> the pixel density was typically 1024 by 800 (or less). Not a lot of real estate
> to play around with.

I have the CDE Dev kit sold by RedHat at the first ALS. 

> Still, it must be interesting to see a desktop system that was built for 10 Mbps
> Ethernet, x486 CPU speeds, and (by today's standards) small amounts of RAM
> memory.

I found out xroach was running. About mach 5 on new hardware. Can't see roaches that fast can you? 
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