Re: OT survival of mankind without DSL

You forgot to take one thing into account Kev.

Processors are being slowed down to allow the programmers ( oh excuuuse me. 'sofware engineers' ) to catch up.

http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm

Jared

On Tuesday 05 June 2001 06:50, Kevin Kostyszyn wrote:
> Yeah, but software is accomplishing a lot more now than it did back then.
> It's interesting to me, I know I haven't been around computers maybe as
> long as most of this list, but I have come up with something. It seems to
> me that the industry is finally at a point where the software (general) is
> now trying to catch up to the hardware. Used to be I couldn't buy programs
> because my machine was too much of a wuss, now I can buy anything I want!!
> Kev
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Patrice J
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 7:51 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Because in the past, well-written software used to fit on one or two 320K
> diskettes.
>
> None of that bloated-code API, object-oriented nonsense that just lets
> people come out with new versions every six months.
>
> : )
>
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gogala, Mladen [SMTP:MGogala_at_oxhp.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 6:47 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: 9i download
>
> I believe that a cable modem or a DSL are the best download
> accelerators on
> the market. Doing that with a 56k modem is a suicide. From this
> perspective,
> I cannot
> comprehend how did the mankind survive before the advent of DSL.....
>
>
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