Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:13:46 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, hornback@wireco.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <20010315001346.G496@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <001201c0ad1a$f875d280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:41:31PM -0800 References: <15024.1640.544526.101490@guru.mired.org> <001201c0ad1a$f875d280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:41:31PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Yes, this is yet another reminder of how damaging Windows > has been to the market. The current Intel CPU's are > tremendously retarded by the PC architecture, and the > reason the PC architecture survives is because of the > Microsoft near-monopoly. If Windows had never held more > than, say 40% of the market, we would have tons more > computational power today and PC architecure woudl be a dim > memory. Then again, would the hoards of desktop lusers out there really need that 128 MB RAM and 800 MHz CPU if there weren't a fscking animated, AI, dancing paperclips lurking in the already bloated office suite they use? I hate that little bastard so-o much. eevul eevul eevul eevul, die die die die die die die. I use the "old" and "slow" PII 400 MHz boxes with a meager 64 MB RAM at the office and have a hard time justifying that much muscle when doing stuff with a non-MS OS. The causality here is kind of hard to sort out. Does the M$ bloatware press hardware manufactures to keep getting more processors, disk, and memory for less money, or has the software has just run away as the hardware resources became available? It's still hard to believe 16 IRQ's haven't already killed the arch as anyone with a recent notebook PC loaded with built-in devices can attest. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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