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Re: What is "powerful"?
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Date: 
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:06:37 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system
vendor.

They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower
and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and faster processors
to compensate.  It's been that way at least as far back as 1985...  :-(

Anyone planning on taking a look at the $199 iToaster?

http://www.microworkz.com/Products/iToaster/iToaster.cfm

The only "bad" thing seems to be that you have to use their ISP, and
it is $19.99 per month, which I guess is kinda average, but certainly
a lot more than I pay (nothing).

If there were some way to hack it to not use the proprietary ISP I
would probably buy one just for the heck of it.

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(...) Isn't "progress" great? ;-) (...) Well, chalk that behavior up as being courtesy of your operating system vendor. They want booting and every other normal aspect of computing to be slower and slower each year so that you need to buy faster and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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