"Toy" computers (was Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers)

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Thu Apr 25 07:07:18 2002

And thusly Richard Erlacher spake:
>
> Doesn't the notion of a time line mean anything to you? In the 20 years since
> the period to which I was referring things have changed considerably since the
> density of hardware has increased so much. It makes little sense for vendors
> to sell things separately and become huge and difficult to handle just to sell
> a little more plastic, when they really don't need to be bigger than a cigar
> box.
>
> The grandkids have Playstations. Adults might want 'em too, since some of the
> games are pretty slick. I don't relate to that, myself, but I know lots of
> folks enjoy a game as a form of diversion. I don't think anybody would
> mistake one for a computer though it wouldn't surprise me to learn that
> somebody somewhere had figured out how to make it run Linux. I just can't
> imagine why one would want to.
>

Here it is:

Linux for PlayStation 2 Community: Home
http://www.playstation2-linux.com

Bryan
Received on Thu Apr 25 2002 - 07:07:18 BST

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