Speaking of cubes

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Sat Oct 14 14:40:55 2000

From: Neil Cherry <ncherry_at_home.net>


>I blame Microsoft. :-)


Only partly. the public that buys this as the "best" is part fo the
problem.

For example, I do run a P166 w/64mb and NT4workstation and love it
but the only MS apps are IE4.01/sp2 and outlook express. Everything else
is NON MS, makes the system fast and solid. When I find a good
replacement for OutlookExpress that will with IE go to the trashbin.

In the end I had to do a very careful install to leave out junk. I'm
finding
Linux is going that way to. Why?? People want it!

>mail program part of the Browser? The recent Mozilla release (18) looks
>wonderful but cause Linux to swap like mad on a 64M box. I like Linux


That is disgusting.

>would not believe how idle a 386SX/16MHz is running all my HA software
>and a few other things).


I have two 286 boxen at work controlling ovens and testing parts.

My 386/16s I use one is a digital logic analyser (has a board in it)
and te other is a GP use box that is about the size of a small brick
with VGA or MDA(RS170 output). The latter runs fairly nice off the
kluge LVSMPS I created so it can use a 12V battery.

Try NewDeal Software on DOS with a 386/16, windows GUI and
all plus fast to boot and fits in some 10mb. They even have a
decent browser and email.

>We've thrown away being efficient for time to market and now we're
starting

Yep, it's the visual++ languages and all. I ran into someone that wanted
Visual C++ for 8051... get real!

>to see the environmental effect. Can anyone really see the need for a
233MHz
>sprinkler controller?


Also The PC based controls market still sells 486 based PC104, it's
plenty
enough.

Allison
Received on Sat Oct 14 2000 - 14:40:55 BST