On 06/15/2014 02:11 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Its not as if we _need_ anything faster than a 2008 P3 with 1G of memory.
Yet another typo? Didn't Intel stop producing P3s around 2000? In 2008 I think everything was already multicore and 45nm or less. 1G RAM might be on the mark.
My bad. When looking for the alt-sift-f12 there seemed to be a lot of articles from 2008. I go a bit hung up on the date. Strictly speaking, for a lot of what 'the industry' does, old DOS3.3 with WordPerfect4.2 met the requirements of 80% of the office/wordprocesseing needs and probably still does. My GF of the mid 1908s used that with a LanTastic office LAN. I recall when her office upgraded to Windows 3 and TCP/IP. Oh my! The explosion in needs and computing power had to have something to soak up all those extra CPU cycles! Well actually the people on Mahogany Row got the new machines first and its not as if they had any real use for that extra power. It was just a status symbol. -- The master worries about the work, and the apprentice worries about the tools. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org