First of all, John Acuff wrote:
What will it be next version? Native G4 machines only?That would be nice. Even with only two generations of chips on the market until recently, hardware requirements for software have been a joke over the past year. Now that the G5 is here, and given that it seems to fit in as well with G4 benchmarks as the Pentium 4 did with the standards for previous generations of Intel chips, I'd be happy to see some reasonably accurate information about what kind of hardware is actually required to run stuff short of plunking down my money and crossing my fingers.
Honestly, like Kyle said, unless you *have* to be running the latest version of everything (ie. you run a printing business or something, in which case hardware and software upgrades are presumably built into your budget forecasts), what's wrong with sticking to software and an OS that are appropriate to the hardware that you're using, and which you *know* work up to a certain standard?
Meanwhile, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't you dare call my SE/30 a museum piece - it has a vastly important jobThe Epson Apex (12MHz 286) that I bought in August 1990 is still going strong, and it's only been opened up to have additional hardware (sound card, 3.5" floppy drive, modem, ATI Mach8 graphics card with an earth-shattering-at-the-time 1MB of video RAM) installed over the years. As a point of curiosity, it ran MS-DOS 3.3 when I got it, briefly had 5.0 installed, and continues with 6.22 to this day; none of the silly graphical amendments to MS-DOS are active, and while I've tried to make it run at a worthwhile speed, I've given up on the idea of ever running any version of Windows 3.x on it. (Once the term "graphics accelerator" became even remotely common on the hardware market, regular obsolescence became a fact of life.)
- delivering and receiving email for a small non-profit organization. How
many 1990 PCs do you know of that are still running without having visited
the computer doctor?
I haven't had a chance to check it out in almost two years, but I'd assume that the IBM XT that I inherited from a neighbour about a year later is probably still capable of running Lotus 1-2-3 the same as it always has. Right now, though, it's keeping speakers off the ground in a warehouse, a task that it will presumably be able to handle for years and years to come.
-me, bemused
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