On 10/17/2010 06:59 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The size 4mb were typical from late msdos times, when Win 3.x started, year 1992 or so - and the mos modern cpus were the 386 or perhaps 486 - no pentiums, even less the IV.
Memory lane - my first box (still runs) 386/33 w/math coprocessor, 4 meg. and 120m drive. DOS 4.01 (yea! no 33m partition limitations), Win 3.1 & word all installed in less than 4 meg of drive space. Trumpet winsock, handled internet over 2400 baud dial-up, Mosaic had not yet been born and the c-shell/ftp and text-interface to compuserve or bulletin boards were the only game in town. A big step up from the dual-1.2M/360k drive setups on the 286 boxes at work. And just 2-3 years prior at A&M, the VAX cluster was the only game going. (FORTRAN for numerical methods/common-blocks - yuk!) (we've come a long way in 20 years) I was at NASA when the first Mosaic appeared ('91?) and at the time there were very few sites, no graphics, just links, but man was that better than hand-typing all the urls.... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org