On Friday 06 September 2002 01:38, Darren King wrote: > Man this email made me feel old. I can't believe there are computer > users who don't remember the Amiga!!!!!
Me too. Even though I started with Apple IIe, and the manual included schema of the motherboard. I liked the open architecture with exansion slots (like PCI on PC's nowadays). I remember I had a second CPU (Z80 or whatever it was) on one slot to run CP/M (for newbies, kinda like MS-DOS, to see why MS-DOS was selected by IBM instead of CP/M, just do a google search on "ibm kildall gates"). You could count me as hard-core unix guy--I have been doing almost exclusively unix/linux since '87. I remember that even compiling GNU Emacs was an overnight task back then on a m68k box, compared to ~10 minutes nowadays, and it was way smaller. Not to mention that a 70 meg hard drive cost something like $5000 (sans inflation) and they broke down every now and then. Teemu
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