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I *like* outdated designs!

Bad logic; embarassing to see it in a tech forum. You have created a circularity -- you say in one breath to junk Pentium and then use Pentium. Make up your mind; which is it going to be? Maybe you just need to define your terms; what do you propose constitutes "modern technology"? Anyway, your question is not intelligent and need not be asked, or answered here -- look around and answer it yourself, are people tied to Pentium? I would say that a great many ARE. So what?

Maybe I should be embarassed to admit it, but you know, I'm still using round wheels on my automobile; and seems to me like wheels have been round for at least a few hundred years. A few things change here and there but they're still round.

Speaking of 60's cars, I watched the new triple-x movie. Not much of a story but good effects. Anyway, the high point of the movie appears to be a rebuilt Mustang.

Technology exists to serve humanity. At a certain optimum level, technology need not, and should not, and cannot continue to be "modernized" whatever the word may mean to you. Technology exists only to meet a need, efficiently, correctly, reliably. Once it accomplishes that purpose, do something else.

Can anyone here tell me when was the last time anyone "modernized" the elements of a CPU? Are we not still using NAND gates and things like that? The scale is larger, but the elements are unchanged, no? Used to be you could buy discrete chips; adders, half-adders, quad-nand gates, and do interesting things with them.

You can still buy the Z80 microprocessor, an 8-bit microprocessor that gave CP/M its big boost back in the early 80's. It's perfect for a wide range of functions and seems to me the TI-89 calculator is based on Z80.

Toilets haven't changed much in the past 50 years; you still sit on a u-shaped piece of wood or plastic.

I get EXCELLENT mileage out of computers that folks like you discard so you can have the very latest thing. Works for me. I have two Compaq DL-380 servers, paid $50 each for them, made one good one out of the two. It is unpleasantly noisy in my bedroom but these things are nearly bombproof. I don't use it much, but when I'm opening a 500 megabyte Digital Orthophoto Quad (high resolution aerial photo) then I use the Compaq DL380.

Posted by: mggordon   Posted on: 05/18/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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