Subj : slooow
To   : Guido
From : Jeff
Date : Mon Jan 03 2022 11:29:54

On 03 Jan 2022, Guido said the following...
 Gu> I just pulled out an old desktop work computer from back in the day. I
 Gu> think I bought this thing from New Egg years ago. The name on the case
 Gu> is SYXSystemax. It has a Asus M3A78-EM with a AMD Phenom 9600 Quad core.
 Gu> There are 8 gigs of ram and a 80 gig HD. I know I used this guy at work
 Gu> years ago but I swear I didn't remember it being so slow. You can almost
 Gu> go make a sandwich while waiting for it to open a browser. I loaded
 Gu> Linux Mint 20.2 to speed things up. It had Windows 7 on it before the
 Gu> re-format. Still almost as slow as my Rpi4. I am thinking about putting
 Gu> a 1 tb ssd in it and use it as a bbs machine. Anyone out here ever run
 Gu> across a system like this?

I'm sending this reply from an Atari 130XE with FujiNet. Using IceTXE as a
terminal program, I can kinda/sorta get 80 columns, although each character
is only 4 pixels wide. At 9600 baud, the performance is not bad. The boot
time was reasonable, although I can only run this one program without
rebooting and swapping out floppy disk images.

Jeff.

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