David Woolley wrote:
>
> On 05-May-99, Robert L. Williamson said
>
<SNIP>
>
> But this is precisely what you have done, bought "defunct technology". A
> year's time from now, and your PC will be yesterday's technology. There'll
> be new cards, CPUs, OSes, out there, and the manufacturers will want you to
> buy them. They will convince you that your "super" PC is yesterday's
> technology, and you'll have to throw more money at it or a new machine to
> get with the standard.
Oh come on...this is getting absurd !!!
It's only outdated if you use and upgrade the M$ path. I'm still on win95 with
a 1995 P133 but I upgraded to 32MB. It runs everything out there.
Further, I have variants of Linux and the BSD*s.
Only two weeks ago, as a test, I took a 486sx25 (yes, no co-processor, 25MHz),
added a bigger H/D, memory to 32MB and installed RH5.2. I tried
Xwindows/Xfree86 and it worked. I installed Netscape V4.5 and brought it up ( a
bit slow to load...but it is a 'BIG' programme) and went on-line. It was
pulling in pages in 4-6 seconds with lot's of graphics. Admittedly it was in
256 colours, but it was also at 1,024x768. The Motherboard only had isa (no
pci) and the only card I has was a 1Mb S3 without a ramdac.
So really, it's not the hardware, it's the OS, and only if you go the M$
upgradqe route win95 -> win98-> win2000->winNT.
>
> It all comes down to this- do you own the computer you want, or the computer
> manufacturers want you to won?
>
> You mentioned the 5 years. Imagine if you had bought a 1994 super PC. You'd
> have a 486 running Windows 3.1. Is that considered "state-of-the-art" by
> today's standards? No. If you'd switched then, you'd be in trouble, and
> five years down the year, I think you'll still find yourself in trouble.
No, see above !
BIG <SNIP>
Just wanted to give you my recent experience ! :)
Regards...Martin
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