On 01/01/2018 11:48 AM, Jason Howe via cctalk wrote: > I find that the boatloads of javascript are what bring my old machines > to their knees. The initial https handshake really isn't *that* bad.
Heh, many of my device programming tools are *old* and require a PC with real parallel port and/or serial ports. I suspect that there are modern USB version, but why fool around with something that works? My go-to-system for such things is an old socket A PC that has an Athlon XP-M hacked into it running at about 2.3GHz. It's not awful on most things, but web browsing is very sluggish--it never used to be--something I attribute to more cruft-laden website code. At any rate--I do my browsing on a contemporary system and ftp over any file content needed. Works just fine. --Chuck
