On: The Cathedral and the Pirate

[dan_the_welder]

Right and if I read one more article about how no one can do anything on a netbook with their paltry 1.7 gig Atoms I am gonna spew.

I am running a stable of happy 900 mhz machines for my bread and butter work.

[MaysonL → dan_the_welder]

When I look back on the years [most of the 70's] I spent programming 16K x 18-bit single-digit megaherz machines, with single-digit megabyte hard disks (although they were head-per-track, which makes them much faster - similar to lousy SSD's), and what I was able to get done on them, I laugh....