If I remember correctly, floppies became unusable when prices of drives went bellow $30. Companies had to price fight and that's where quality died. It was 1994 when I lost faith in 1.44 floppy drives.
ZIP drive is good alternative to floppy, of course.
Don't do BASIC or C* misfavor to your children. Delphi is also bad choice because it is hybrid of everything and children can't fight it's complexness without danger to development of basic programming techniques and notions.
Any Wirth's language would be good choice. Simpler-better, and with Windows in mind I would probably choose Oberon-2. www.oberon.ch I think is good starting point.
First, 64MB is more something like 64 minutes of music. It's my average, on 30,000 songs collection. I prefer 112-128 kbps codecs.
Second, I can't remember anybody complaining about size factor of Discman. Also, with pair of Duracels I can listen my Discman some eight to ten hours. And with single disk with 72 minutes and average price for Discman's more like $100, it's simple to continue reasoning.
Third, 72 minutes off-the-shelf CD's are not so common, but with 8x CD-Writer in $200 price range, and blank media in $1 range... I can sacrifice $1 and 9 minutes for some throw-away collection for my listening pleasure. Or put that collection in some 24 pcs bag in car box and replace when I wish.
as some AC pointed out, it's in X acceleration. We have mp3 player we modified so it has threaded feeder to playing thread with 128kb buffer. We still can make pauses while dragging windows under X around. 1600x1200x16M can be real killer to PCI (IIRC, ISA too is bridged through PCI).
while XFree is pretty adjustable on PCI behaviour, I can't find how to tell Xaccel to be nice.
I hope they have plans about more serious rebates as this is simply too pricey! I have DM already and it is wonderful machine but this price is at least 80% over edge.
Size/low power is nice, but I can have dual PII 350MHz PC100 256MB SDRAM 2x43 UW SCSI for same or smaller price. 700MHz od PII...
My first thought was "ok, I'll have three of them then" before I knew they were above $1000 range which I think is last acceptable for 6GB EIDE/64MB SDRAM machine. Probably $1200 if it was SCSI / 128MB SDRAM.
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If I remember correctly, floppies became unusable when prices of drives went bellow $30. Companies had to price fight and that's where quality died. It was 1994 when I lost faith in 1.44 floppy drives.
ZIP drive is good alternative to floppy, of course.
Don't do BASIC or C* misfavor to your children. Delphi is also bad choice because it is hybrid of everything and children can't fight it's complexness without danger to development of basic programming techniques and notions.
Any Wirth's language would be good choice. Simpler-better, and with Windows in mind I would probably choose Oberon-2. www.oberon.ch I think is good starting point.
First, 64MB is more something like 64 minutes of music. It's my average, on 30,000 songs collection. I prefer 112-128 kbps codecs.
Second, I can't remember anybody complaining about size factor of Discman. Also, with pair of Duracels I can listen my Discman some eight to ten hours. And with single disk with 72 minutes and average price for Discman's more like $100, it's simple to continue reasoning.
Third, 72 minutes off-the-shelf CD's are not so common, but with 8x CD-Writer in $200 price range, and blank media in $1 range... I can sacrifice $1 and 9 minutes for some throw-away collection for my listening pleasure. Or put that collection in some 24 pcs bag in car box and replace when I wish.
as some AC pointed out, it's in X acceleration. We have mp3 player we modified so it has threaded feeder to playing thread with 128kb buffer. We still can make pauses while dragging windows under X around. 1600x1200x16M can be real killer to PCI (IIRC, ISA too is bridged through PCI).
while XFree is pretty adjustable on PCI behaviour, I can't find how to tell Xaccel to be nice.
While this looks as undervalued position it is possibly not so bad at all - for spreading of Linux it is maybe the best starting point.
Cheap servers -> volume sales -> market share. Not to mention less IIS' as time passes, main distribution point for IIS are preinstalled servers.
it's not applix's problem. try using xfsft and read Rod Smith's page on fonts under X and with Applixware.
They have working font situation. 300 dpi is not problem to you, I suppose.
happy customer, making AC exception
for about a month now. try
this link for further info. (i scre*ed first one with html, excuse me:)
Intel, Alpha and PPC now.
for about a month now. try
this link for further info.
Intel, Alpha and PPC now.
I hope they have plans about more serious rebates as this is simply too pricey! I have DM already and it is wonderful machine but this price is at least 80% over edge.
Size/low power is nice, but I can have dual PII 350MHz PC100 256MB SDRAM 2x43 UW SCSI for same or smaller price. 700MHz od PII...
My first thought was "ok, I'll have three of them then" before I knew they were above $1000 range which I think is last acceptable for 6GB EIDE/64MB SDRAM machine. Probably $1200 if it was SCSI / 128MB SDRAM.
You don't really expect ego-nerds to understand sociology and/or statistics?