> There are many parts in the world where $600 in just about any > currency are a fortune. Not that people here in Riga could not afford it, but the amount of money is enyough to consider, if hardware has to be bought again after a few years.
In fact the computer is used often as before 10 years - for writing texts, doing simple spreadsheet calculations. In an educational-scientific institution here some sort of 80086 is still used for measurements, data acquisition in one laboratory. Throwing away old computers is nor necessary, nor ecological, and the potential of an i586 should be more than enyough for browsing net, doing calculations (if not with billions of variables, and with a good algorithm) and more depending on the peripheral devices. I myself would better like to sit home and practice some coding and think about algorithms than go to the computer store and buy a new computer part, as before that I would have to spend time on earning money for that new computer too. A computer is like a woman. Exploring one computer deeper would give greater possibilities than changing them all the time. Regards, Janka _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
