On 2/29/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > like a cookiesheet in the oven: crack! It was replaced with the 486 in > 1994 (in the middle of exams at UofT).
Lucky you. I waited until 1996 (basically until I could afford it and there was a good special) to get a pentium 100 with 16 megs of RAM. Before that I was limping along with a Packard Bell 386sx, running at 16 mhz. Oh, those were the days :). But I don't upgrade very often - usually 5 years before I go get stuff to put a new computer together. My current machine (Athlon 1ghz/768 megs) is still pretty fast enough for most things I do, but a bit sluggish for intense things like video transcoding :). So I would of course like a brand spanking new box, likely it will be whenever I get to put one together it'll be such a screamer that I won't have to update for quite a while (those dual core 4+ghz amd 64's look really nice, but then again, by the time I upgrade I'll probably be able to put a quadcore together :). > Now, in 1988 it would have been a major coup to have a 486 with 16 MB > ram.... Back then I think I still was running an XT :). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
