8 Feb
2012
8 Feb
'12
11:41 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Darrell Anderson wrote:
As a side comment, in many ways my Windows for Workgroup 3.11 with the
Norton Desktop on my 16 MB 486 machine (still runs!) is faster than any
modern desktop environment. I have that same environment cloned on a PI
class machine and the system screams.
Hardware might improve at 2x the
capacity every 18 months, but software seems to get 2x slower. :)
+1
Every now and then I fire up my old OS/2 WARP 3 machine that I retired
when I moved on to Linux back on 01-01-2000. For a 180 MHZ box, it sure
does not make this dual-core, 2.2 GHZ workstation look like it's really
doing 20x+ -times better performance-wise. :-)
(apologies for the OT topic drift.)
Regards,
Jonesy
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