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Re: Woody on 486 problem



Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:21 -0600, Ron Johnson
> <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
>
>> I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us
>> greybeards play "remember when"!!!
>
>> Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM?  (Shame on you!!)
>
>> Remember when OS/2 ran *great* with 16MB RAM?
>
>> Remember when Doom ran great on Linux and fvwm, with 16MB RAM and
>> et4000/W32p video card?
>
>  Ha! Remember when computers meant handing over a deck of punch cards
>  to feed to a Soviet-made IBM-360 EC1030 with manuals in Russian, and
>  coming back the next week to learn that you forgot to start your
>  comment on column 6 of the card 134, and so there was no output?
>
>         manoj

What about IBM 1130 - my first computer on University. Or, my god, when I
firs time saw MicroPDP-11!

Its amazing how we regulary suck-seed to slip into OT!

-- 
Mirko Scurk



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