Nice article, Survpc list on steroids you could say : "Never Say Die" by Mark Frauenfelder <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/diehards.html > Here is an appetizer, from the introduction: # begin copy Sugarman's sound-bite slogan for the movement he hoped to inspire was "Off the Treadmill!" His solution: Find yourself a "durable, portable, and relatively sprightly" hardware platform, an operating system that's "STABLE, rather than bleeding-edge," and a suite of "Pretty Good Software, consisting of an integrated package that provides basic word processing, spreadsheet, database, and telecom." Then, learn how to use the system, and "do NOT come back for at least 10 years. After that, you MIGHT be eligible for your next computer solution. But only if you've truly outgrown what you've worked with for the past decade." # end copy Hmmm the article runs over 7 web pages, but when stripped to plain text it is "only" 38kb. Some irony when you read a story about unnecessary bloat.(contradiction in terms, I know). On the other hand, when you stop by the page, see the upper right corner for option to e-mail complete plain text copy of article in one mail :) Don't miss the accompanying article, short list of classic computers with some facts and links: <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/diehardware.html> Thanks to Dev Teelucksingh who suggested this article on the Arachne list. All the best, Bjorn To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
