(October 3, 2011 at 6:40 pm)IATIA Wrote: As I stated,I am a MAC guy (for now), I only use windows in my work environment. The communications systems programs I use are not yet compatible with Vista or 7. My toughbook has three partitions, MSDOS, Win98 and XP. Yes, some software in my field still only runs in DOS and most of those cannot run in a DOS shell. So this even limits the machines I can use. No USB-serial, hard port only.
Have you considered using virtualization and USB dongles for legacy ports in conjunction with USB pass through to said VMs, Grandpa?
(October 3, 2011 at 6:40 pm)IATIA Wrote: I was speaking of the user interface. If you had ever played with MAC OS9, you will remember that something as simple as opening a folder was 'right now' when the desktop displays after a startup or reboot.. The computers are getting faster but the overhead in the GUIs are outpacing them.
I remember locking up OS9 from time to time. Computers don't really seem much faster to me -- probably because with more resources comes more luxuries.
(October 3, 2011 at 6:40 pm)IATIA Wrote: In the early days of computing, there were some really sharp programmers. Memory was small (my first computer had 4K of memory) and there were contests, one of which was writing any program, but "one line of basic". Some guy wrote a "Centipede" game and another "Pac Man". Albeit crude, they played impressively well.
"Get off my lawn" much?
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