On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Darrell Anderson wrote:
>
>As a side comment, in many ways my Windows for Workgroup 3.11 with the
>Norton Desktop on my 16 MB 486 machine (still runs!) is faster than any
>modern desktop environment. I have that same environment cloned on a PI
>class machine and the system screams.
>
>Hardware might improve at 2x the
>capacity every 18 months, but software seems to get 2x slower. :)

+1

Every now and then I fire up my old OS/2 WARP 3 machine that I retired
when I moved on to Linux back on 01-01-2000.  For a 180 MHZ box, it sure
does not make this dual-core, 2.2 GHZ workstation look like it's really
doing 20x+ -times better performance-wise.  :-)

(apologies for the OT topic drift.)

Regards,
Jonesy
-- 
  Marvin L Jones     | jonz         | W3DHJ  |  linux
   Pueblo, Colorado  |  @           | Jonesy |   OS/2     __
    38.238N 104.547W |   config.com | DM78rf |            SK