Re: In defense of modern software (Re: Debian on an old PC)

2005-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 17:30 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:12:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > 2) Macintosh excepted, but it had it's own problems: the geniuses > > who wrote it had to be brilliant to squeeze all that greatness into > > a 64KB ROM, and the hacks they

Re: In defense of modern software (Re: Debian on an old PC)

2005-01-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:12:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > 2) Macintosh excepted, but it had it's own problems: the geniuses > who wrote it had to be brilliant to squeeze all that greatness into > a 64KB ROM, and the hacks they had to do mad it difficult to make > multi-finder, do protected mu

In defense of modern software (Re: Debian on an old PC)

2005-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 03:47 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:31:10PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: [snip] > I think we would end up with much better software if all developers were > forced to use old, slow computers :) I remember how good and fast the > software was on m