said William Morder via tde-users: | Speed is the worst drug of all. At first you will feel that you are | running just a bit faster, and it will be nice. But then you'll get used | to it, and you'll start to wonder again why your machine is running so | slow. | | It never stops. That's how these things are designed to work, so that | you need to buy more, and run even faster. I have often considered what it would be like to boot and run one of my old OS/2 installs on my current system. When OS/2 2.0 was released IBM said that we needed 4 but preferably 8 mb -- not gb, mb -- of memory. And I had a luxurious 340mb Micropolis hard drive (purchased at the they-ll-never-be-this-cheap-again price of $650). So it should be possible to load the entire system into a ramdrive and have, what, 31 gigs of memory left over. I think it would run pretty quickly. Remember when the computing world was *outraged* that a full install of Winword 2.0 ran 20mb? That was when you could fit Wotd for DOS onto a bootable 360k floppy; if you wanted the help files, you'd need to install it on a bootable 3.5-inch 720k floppy. Makes one think that things have gotten a little slow and bloated, no? Then again, Linux used to run perfectly well on a Pentium 133 with 8 megs or so of memory. Probably not the case anymore. <g> -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
