Free IBM system 36

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat Jan 10 10:08:27 1998

<>640K (or lately, 32Mb). And I suspect that anytime Allison has even
<>4K at hand, she kicks some butt.

As someone who has (and still does) develope hardware and software,
Thank You!

<"power user" t

The original term is apple/mac in origin and was someone that knew the
guts and made their system situp and bark(sometimes literally!).

<Oh, and of late it seems to be more like 64Mb is the minimum to do anythi
<with a PC suffering the Winbloat. I totally agree that these can't handl

Even my biggest vax only 16meg, and my PC a measly 8mb and I run all that
and winders<ok 3.1 I cheat ;)>. Code bloat has become fantastic.

<stuff that any decently configured computer with less than 64k could do
<Look at how fast a CP/M system can be up and running Wordstar, compared t
<a Win95 system running Word97.

As someone that has some 10mhz z80 systems, that is an understatement. I
spent most of the 80s blowing the doors of PCs with PDP-11/23s and z80s.
It wasn't till the 386/33s that that became a real contest in my eyes.
At that point I started using old vaxen to make the race interesting.

Allison
Received on Sat Jan 10 1998 - 10:08:27 GMT

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