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LostInEmulation
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26 Feb 2008, 8:43 am
I have something similarly slow and the only thing, which slows it down to a crawl is Lyx - but then, it maybe was a bad idea to put a modern word processor (or document processor, for the nitpickers among you 
) on it in the first place.
26 Feb 2008, 2:04 pm
) on it in the first place.Microsoft's Word 5.5 was the last one designed for DOS. It was blazingly fast on the older machines and would be unbelievable on the new machines. It was a WYSIWYG, too. I have it laying around somewhere.
Just firing up .NET for some program brings most computers to their temporary knees. And with it getting used more and more, there will be pressure on performance just for rather mundane programs which don't do all that much.
When I built my Altair 8800, in 1975, I got 256 bytes of memory to work in. It was a year before I could afford the 8k of memory (I had to build that, too, as two separate 4k dynamic ram cards) that allowed me to have both BASIC and the applications I would write professionally in memory at once. 8k was plenty. You could do a small business accounting system in that, no problem. These days... 2Gb doesn't seem to be enough for a .NET version of Notepad.
Times are different.
Jon
26 Feb 2008, 2:47 pm
10 Mar 2008, 4:22 pm
Desktop (the one known as coolblue) NEW(ish) CONFIG
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OS:Linux (Ubuntu 7.10)/Windows XP (XP boots first by default)
CPU:AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (overclocked to 2600+) 2.2GHz
Chipset:VIA KT133A (finally identified it, lol)
RAM:768 MB
Hard Drive:Primary: Western Digital WD800BB 80GB partitioned into 2 for each OS (OS drive). Secondary: Maxtor91021U2 10GB (retrieving content from it)
Primary Optical Drive:Creative 5230E 52x CD ROM drive
Secondary Optical Drive:Lite-On DH20A4P DVD+/-R/RW/dual layer DVD RW drive
Media Manager:Amarok/Windows Media Player (depending on which OS I boot to)
Graphics:nVidia FX5200
Sound:C-Media CMI8738, onboard sound
Monitor:LG StudioWorks 771B
AGP Slots:1 (1x, 2x, 4x)
PCI Slots:5
PCI 1x Slots:0
PCI 4x Slots:0
PCI 16x Slots:0
Manufacture:home built
Model Number:none
and pictures of the new cooler and bluer coolblue are included 
and
(Disclaimer, Pikachu likes to show off and mess up threads with BIG pictures of his computers when he can 
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LostInEmulation
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11 Mar 2008, 1:27 pm
This is my good one. My craptop was listed earlier already.
OS: Linux (Gentoo)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ @2000 MHz
Chipset: no idea..., something SiS-made
RAM: 512 MB
Hard Drive: 360 GB (one 300GB harddisk, one 60 GB harddisk)
Primary Optical Drive: generic CD/DVD reader
Secondary Optical Drive: generic CD-writer
Media Manager: ogg123, mpg321, when I have too much free RAM amarok
Graphics: yes (lspci says that the card is a GeForce FX 5200)
Sound: onboard
Monitor: generic 17" CRT monitor
AGP Slots: no idea and no intention to open my system
PCI Slots: no idea and no intention to open my system
PCI 1x Slots: no idea and no intention to open my system
PCI 4x Slots: no idea and no intention to open my system
PCI 16x Slots: no idea and no intention to open my system
Manufacture: local company at the next-to-last place I lived.
Model Number: custom build
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