Hello Bob.

26 Nov 10 04:37, you wrote to Roger Nelson:

 BA> Replying to a message of Roger Nelson to Bj”rn Forsstr”m:

 RN>> Bj”rn Forsstr”m wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 BF>>> Hope so.

 RN>> Think positive!  (-:

 BF>>> And as I said, It's a Athalon 4200+ dual core with 1 GB RAM and
 BF>>> it's really speed in it.

 RN>> I sometimes wish I had 1G of RAM.  I'm running a Pentium 4, 2G
 RN>> processor with 320MB of Ram on a system I built.

 BA> Why?  The slowest component on any computer is the nut on the
 BA> keyboard, and upgrading processors, adding RAM, etc. etc. isn't going
 BA> to fix that. Fidonet works just fine on 8086 or 286 boxes (and 8080
 BA> boxes if you can find the software).  My BBS is running on a 486/66,
 BA> which is still overkill for the tasks required.


     Ya mean this P4 3.2G with 2G of ram and now about 560GB of HD space
is a little overkill? Pac-Man just screams on it. 

     While I have a half dozen or so working PII's and PIII's I don't
use them for much anymore. I hate throwing away working PC's though. I
did recently donate a pallet full of PC's to a PC charity outfit near
me. Hopefully they will be of use to someone.

    The other day I bought a new PC game. I was surprized to find out that
it recommends a 512M top of the line video card but will install with a
256M card with less intense graphics. Kinda makes the 1M cards I still
have look pathetic. Alas the DOS prompt of years ago was so much less
demanding.


 BA> --- FleetStreet 1.19+

Jeff

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