Rumor has it that Mike Cheponis may have mentioned these words:
>Sure, if the old stuff works, why change? (Even if it -is- obsolete!)
>It does indeed make sense.
I can honestly say that is where you and I differ greatly: the definition
of "obsolete."
My CoCo3 is *not* obsolete. It plays Rogue wonderfully (the PC port sucked
canal water), keeps track of my coin collection (Dynacalc is a wonderful
thing) and other tasks.
My Atari ST isn't obsolete, either. I have a geneology program that works
wonderfully, and I use it to print mailing lists - you don't need a
PentiumIII to print mailing labels on a 24-pin... (Why don't I use my
15-year-old Epson LX-80? It didn't have tractor-feed... :-( )
Neither has a hard drive... they don't need one for the tasks which I find
useful on them. Web browsing on either? I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid.
;-) They weren't designed for that, no more than a Hyundai was designed to
pull a 32-foot travel trailer...
[[BTW, just to clear things up - in a previous post you mentioned "and why
more and more L2 cache is onboad the PIII modules." Hate to tell you this,
but the PII & PIII's *never* changed their cache size or (relative) speed.
512K Level2 Cache, running at 1/2 clock speed of the processor. The Xeon
processors (both PII & PIII versions) come in 512K, 1M & 2M cache sizes
that run at the processor clock speed.]]
Obviously, my definition is: If it still works, it's not obsolete.
Just my $0.0000000000002 (USD),
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
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disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 19:26:52 BST