Subj : Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
To   : Spectre
From : Arelor
Date : Thu May 26 2022 16:58:40

  Re: Re: Am I the only one dumpster diving ?
  By: Spectre to boraxman on Thu May 26 2022 10:02 pm

 >  bo> There are many arguments for upgrading, for new software, but our socie
 >  bo> is built upon rampant consumption and we do a bad job of repurposing ol
 >  bo> equipment, or re-engineering it, or adapting software to run on it.
 > 
 > There was a time, I expected Linux would be at least a partial solution to
 > that, given it gave far better bang for the buck against DOS or early Win
 > systems.  But that didn't last long... where it was feasible if not always
 > practical to get it installed on... a 386 class system, slowest I tried was 
 > DX40 wasn't long before you couldn't... I had the DX40 running a MUD
 > briefly...
 > 
 > Spec
 > 
 > 
 > *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]

The problem is usually not the operating system, but what you run on it.

I have an old Pentium machine with 192 Mb of RAM here.I can install OpenBSD on
it or run Tiny Core Linux on it, no issues. Then you try to run a modern web
browser and it dies XD

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