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Legacy-Free PCs

Posted by Hemos on from the changing-the-hardware dept.

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.

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  1. I'd rather... by sporty · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd rather A free legacy pc any day.

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    1. Re:I'd rather... by FrostedWheat · · Score: 3, Funny

      You are still using the wheel arent you?

      Definitly! We tried upgrading our cars to run on Wheel95 but they just kept crashing!

  2. What does it RUN then? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 3, Funny

    BeOS?

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  3. We can have a PC not based on twenty year old tech by gricholson75 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then install an OS based on Unix. 30 year old tech.

  4. Hmph by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well I guess that using a c64 with a tape deck just isnt recent enough for people.

  5. 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Next Page by roman_mir · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Legacy, schmegacy by Jon+Abbott · · Score: 4, Funny

    I still like my 9-pin serial port, you insensitive clod!

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  7. Legacy ehh??? by MoeMoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    **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...

    <old man status?="snooze mode"> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
    </status>

    **end rant**

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  8. How about legacy-free cars ? by ReidMaynard · · Score: 4, Funny

    all the same
    1) pneumatic tires
    2) internal combustion engine
    3) suspension

    bla bla bla

    I don't think flying cars will ever get here :-(

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  9. Re:Unfortunately... by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can even run 'edlin' in Windows XP! It's like the editor you used with a teletype machine on a pdp8.

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  10. Legacy Free by Aknaton · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Finally we can have a PC not based on twenty year old technology"

    Who would buy a computer without a keyboard?

  11. Re:InfoWeek having issues by Andrewkov · · Score: 4, Funny

    Instructions for navigating the site are on page 2 of the article...

  12. That legacy-free PC... by gmuslera · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... seems to have a qwerty keyboard.

  13. Re:Legacy by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  14. If you cant' get to the article, by GMFTatsujin · · Score: 5, Funny
    Try reading this copy while you wait.


    Many people don't know it, but today's automobiles--including the car you're using right now--contain elements that have hardly changed at all in the last 20 years. Yes, engines are faster, tires are bigger, and camshafts throw more torque. But in many fundamental ways, your car isn't very different from the cars of two decades ago.

    Think I'm exaggerating? Take a look at this almost-20-year-old image (left) scanned from the October 1984 issue of Car and Driver magazine, which covered the rollout of the original Datsun Stationwagon. If you've ever popped open your hood, the overall layout will instantly seem familiar, and you'll recognize many of the components. Note the washer fluid tank in the rear right corner, the transmission on the right, the piston chamber in the closed bay near the center, the fan belt and horn, and the distributor to the left. Experienced eyes will even pick out the battery, the fuel tank, the familiar-looking cables and electrical connectors, and more.

    Although some of the system elements have been modified over time, almost everything in your car is a direct lineal descendent of the Ford Model T --a seminal design that still shapes automobile architecture decades later.

    GMFTatsujin
  15. Re:We can have a PC not based on twenty year old t by ray-auch · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 ?