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Legacy-Free PCs
JeffM2001 writes "InformationWeek is running a story by Fred Langa which gives an overview of the ways to create a true-Legacy-free computer. Finally we can have a PC not based on twenty year old technology." Update: 04/07 17:34 GMT by T : Pages past the first one of this article seem just to loop; here's the printable version, which has the whole article in one go.
I'd rather A free legacy pc any day.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
BeOS?
That was classic intercourse!
So what does it run if not an x86 processor? :)
Then install an OS based on Unix. 30 year old tech.
Well I guess that using a c64 with a tape deck just isnt recent enough for people.
I guess the navigation controls at the bottom of the page used to move between pages of the article are running from one of those new computers with no BIOS that don't suffer from stagnation or stability.
You can't handle the truth.
I still like my 9-pin serial port, you insensitive clod!
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**begin old man ranting**
Back in my day we would kill for those Legacy based PC's, I remember a time where the i386 and 8mb of ram would be some fancy stuff, but nooooo... these days all you whipper snappers want is speed and pretty colors on your pretty little flat panel doohickies, well I remem...
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**end rant**
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all the same
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1) pneumatic tires
2) internal combustion engine
3) suspension
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I don't think flying cars will ever get here
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The 2000 is a great machine, providing that you can get by with the software that Tandy has engineered for the 2000. The 2000 is one of the fasted machines on the market today, has fantastic 640x400 CGA color graphics and don't forget the 720K 5.25" floppy disk drive. If you are looking to put a "standard" ISA card in this machine, forget it... no ISA slots, just Tandy 2000 slots. This machine along with it's version of DOS 2.11 makes it an excellent state-of-the-art personal computer. So THERE! Who needs an upgrade?
I believe the author was talking about a computer who's users could handle more than one mouse button... and that could run 3rd party software. ;-)
(I know, I know, I got reeled in, but I can never resist Mac trolls.)
foe me, freak me.
USB and Firewire are so legacy. It's USB 2 and Firewire 2 now.
We can even run 'edlin' in Windows XP! It's like the editor you used with a teletype machine on a pdp8.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
"Finally we can have a PC not based on twenty year old technology"
Who would buy a computer without a keyboard?
Aren't they, like, 30 years old? Can we REALLY do without those? ;)
You are not the customer.
Instructions for navigating the site are on page 2 of the article...
because a plain .txt page might survive a slashdotting, i mean comeon, /. has a rep to uphold.
... seems to have a qwerty keyboard.
I have to wonder how they expect to have legacy-free machines while there are still people running around with huge phallic vibrating instruments?
Easy. Throw out serial or ps/2 dildo. Replace with firewire or usb dildo.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
GMFTatsujin
yes...i also hate how my car still uses rubber tires to drive over "roads"...so primitive.
Primitive is right - it's the 21st century, wheres my f***ing flying car ?
Performance! Every keypress, I have to wait MICROSECONDS for the keyboard to patiently transmit the key codes over these archaic, slow transmission wires to get to the motherboard, which then has to translate the ANALOG signal (yes, they are still varying the voltage back and forth to transmit the signal, just like Alexander Graham's phone did) back to digital. It's like surfing the Internet on a dialup.
With USB, suddenly all those signal can be transmitted digitally at USB speeds. This means my computer gets the signals faster and the response time is better (like surfing on a T3). You may not notice a difference, but, believe me, this makes a big difference for people who type at speeds above 2000 words per minute.
More seriously, the main goal, as I understand it, is to cut down on the number of connectors and definitely the numeber of different types of connectors. Your mouse, your keyboard, your printer, and all your normal peripherals (modulo the monitor) can be connected via a signal interface: USB. Of course, they then create two USB connections and then there's the power problem. They also did not help with connections to the outside world (phone line or ethernet), although it's not clear how they could. The point is to get rid of the finding-the-right-jack problem and make it 'plug it into any jack'.
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At least in Unix the slashes run the right way, and text files don't use silly two-byte line terminators.
After that, it already knows.
I can see the fnords!
I like the ground hogs day effect of clicking on "next page" only to keep reading " Many people don't know it, but today's PCs--including the system you're using right now--contain elements that have hardly changed at all in the last 20 years" -- start dream sequence here ~~ " hardly changed at all..." "hardly changed at all" "have harldy changed at all..." --que twilight zone scream clip -- fade to black --
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