>> ... but on modern hardware we have enough to burn. > > Wasting anything just "because we can afford it" is generally > a bad idea.
With which I absolutely agree. But it seems only I wonder how much farther ahead Windows/Linux might be, if their kernels and drivers [as a MINIMUM!] HAD in fact been done in assembly code! >> Most of us like this progress. While I do enjoy tinkering >> with my old hardware, it's not usable for things that most >> people need to do today. > > No, you're wrong; it's not usable for bloated software of today, > not for the things that most people do: > > #v+ > "Check out the results! For the functions that people use most often, > the 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 > tests to 8! Out of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the > time! ... Little surprise to me, after Lucho's 2008 comment that my own UIDE "beat THEM, 2 months ago!", referring to Windows. And UIDE still doesn't use any interrupts, due to ancient "Brand I" chipsets that UIDE had to support, despite those chipsets' "errata" [i.e. BUGS]! > ... It can be stated that for the majority of simple office uses, > the massive advances in technology in the past two decades have > brought zero advance in productivity". > #v- With which I ALSO absolutely agree. Now, I have a 1-GB AMD 3000+ system, with a 120-MB hard-disk plus other relatively "high speed" items, in comparison to the 16K (yes, I said KILOBYTE!) mainframes I began on in 1966. GUESS what systems did far more USEFUL work! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
