[rescue] misc old Sun resources

[Dave McGuire]

On July 21, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
> > Really, folks.  Computers don't get slower with time.  With the
> > exception of MP3 playing and video hacking, have our applications for
> > our machines really changed all that much since, say, the IPX was new?
> > Note that by "applications" I mean "reading email" or "writing code",
> > not "playing around with KDE" which can tank all but the very fastest
> > of systems.
> 
> The LX I picked out of a dumpster 5 years ago is the same speed now as it
> was when it was a, what, $10,000 computer in '93.  The Classics I bought for
> $5 apiece at the U surplus store haven't slowed down, either.  The Indigo2's
> processor still says it's a 200 MHz unit, just like it was in '93 ....

  Absolutely.

  You really got an LX out of a dumpster five years ago?  That was quite
a score.  I was still selling them for Real Money(tm) then.

> The only thing slowing down around here is me!

  I know the feeling!

     -Dave

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