Comments on: PC, XT, and me http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/393?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pc-xt-and-me Dave Ferguson's interests, ideas, notions, tangents Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/393/comment-page-1#comment-12527 Dave Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:19:57 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=393#comment-12527 I wasn't saying the XT was bad, Mr C; comparison isn't necessarily criticism. I'm sure lots of people have XTs, and Apple IIes, and other machines working. I'd be hard pressed to do anything useful for a client on an XT, though. Even with QEMM, I never got available memory about 615K os so, which probably wouldn't be enough for the Firefox install routine. I wasn’t saying the XT was bad, Mr C; comparison isn’t necessarily criticism. I’m sure lots of people have XTs, and Apple IIes, and other machines working.

I’d be hard pressed to do anything useful for a client on an XT, though. Even with QEMM, I never got available memory about 615K os so, which probably wouldn’t be enough for the Firefox install routine.

]]> By: MrCoffee http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/393/comment-page-1#comment-12523 MrCoffee Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:11:36 +0000 http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/?p=393#comment-12523 Well... there ya go, comparing an orginal PC/XT to a current computer. But at the time... well then, it was a great system. Still have my PC/XT, it was the second computer I purchased. The first was a Osborne 1. Anyways, there has been a bit of advancement since the day of the XT, but I bet you that my XT will still be running long after your $1200 notebook has given up the ghost. Well… there ya go, comparing an orginal PC/XT to a current computer. But at the time… well then, it was a great system. Still have my PC/XT, it was the second computer I purchased. The first was a Osborne 1.

Anyways, there has been a bit of advancement since the day of the XT, but I bet you that my XT will still be running long after your $1200 notebook has given up the ghost.

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