[ale] OT: Rant

[JD]

Check out TinyCore.  You will be amazed at the speed.

Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

>Today I found on the shelf at my workplace old mid 90's PC. PI 200
>MMX/64MB
>RAM Win 98. So let Me recall the old days. I crank it up and voila
>there is
>the well known desktop. I put floppy with few HTML files in I double
>click
>on license.htm and 3 seconds later there is Internet Explorer with full
>rendered pages.
>
>I'm not in praise of M$ products.
>
>The question I'm asking myself is how WE managed to degrade in terms of
>speed and hardware requirements that drastically in matter of 15 years.
>I
>can't probably run modern kernel and X server on this hardware without
>waiting first my lunch to get ready :)
>
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