[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows 98se with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

Carl T. Miller wrote:
> Garry Stahl wrote:
>> Yep.  I get identical response times form my 1992 Amiga 1200 with ten
>> meg of ram and a 20 mhrz processor as my 8 gig ram and 2.4 ghrz dual
>> core.  Even with Linux boated programing is a problem.
>>
>> Imagine how these things would run if you had the kind of tight
>> programing Amigas enjoyed, or even DOS.
>>
>> We have 500 times the computer, but not 500 times the computing.
>
> True, but remember that those operating systems were not
> designed for usage on the Internet and are missing all the
> security protections that modern OSes use.  There is a price
> in computing power for the better security as well as support
> for modern hardware.

What in God's name does that have to do with an editor taking up 20x as much memory
and 50x as many CPU cycles to accomplish the same task as what editors have always done?

Don't make excuses for this sort of crap -- that only makes YOU part of the problem, too.


And by the way, the networking subsystem is extremely efficient -- on par with
doing character I/O on a RS-232 serial port.

The changes over the last 3 decades are literally trivial. (not figuratively, LITERALLY).

>
> I look at Linux as being a smorgasbord and avoid the bloatware,
> so I have no complaints about the computing power.  I'll take
> CentOS 6 over DOS 6 any day!
>
> c