Re: A decade in the Monastery

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Re^2: A decade in the Monastery by dws (Chancellor) on Jul 12, 2010 at 00:09 UTC
I'm going from memory, and may well be wrong. It was an old laptop at the time, and was maxed out, or close to it, on (then very expensive) RAM. The point is, by 2010 standards it was incredibly puny.	[reply]
Re^3: A decade in the Monastery by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Jul 12, 2010 at 00:22 UTC
The point is, by 2010 standards it was incredibly puny. Hey, tell me about it:) My first disk based system (mid 80's) was an Amstrad CPC 6128 with 128K RAM, 160KB 3 inch floppies and 4MHz processor. /old fart mode I remember the Commodore PET, where `FOR I=1 to 32767 : NEXT` was considered an infinite loop (time wise)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: A decade in the Monastery by ambrus (Abbot) on Jul 12, 2010 at 20:40 UTC
In the hardware, apart from the faster CPUs, more RAM, and large TFT monitors, there are two more changes that I find important: large hard disks and cheap dvd writing enable easy backing up of data even at home – that was not possible ten years ago –, and the keyboards getting worse.	[reply]
Re^3: A decade in the Monastery by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Jul 12, 2010 at 20:51 UTC
and the keyboards getting worse I wish you hadn't written that. I'd forgotten about those bloody awesome, built-out-of-tank-armour IBM keyboards. /me drools	[reply]
Re^4: A decade in the Monastery by wazoox (Prior) on Jul 13, 2010 at 11:42 UTC
You can still get something similar : Das Keyboard. Available with supremely geeky blank key caps.	[reply]
Re^4: A decade in the Monastery by rir (Vicar) on Jul 16, 2010 at 14:03 UTC
Forget??! Mine was made on 19AUG92 and is going strong. Wipe the drool off your chin. It's unseemly. Ha! Be well, rir	[reply]
Re^2: A decade in the Monastery by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Jul 12, 2010 at 15:09 UTC
That's a lot of RAM. My current laptop is 166Mhz with only 48 Mb of RAM. :) (Though I've bought a dual core 1.6Ghz / 2Gb RAM netbook, and will eventually get it configured with an effective load, its going slowly) The way I see it is; if I can make the Perl code efficient enough for me to sit through a run on the old laptop, nobody can complain about its performance on modern hardware!	[reply]