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Article #180Re: Are this parts good for a new system that will going to last for 6yrs? PII266 CPU, ASUS motherboard, #9 video cards, USR mod...
From: Ketil Z Malde
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997 00:00
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Kelvin Lee <SPAMTHIS!!!@student.uq.edu.au> writes: > Last for 6 years? Forget it! Computers become obsolete the moment you > buy it! Just 18 months ago, I thought my Pentium 120 to be a real > kickass computer.... Get an X-terminal! Mine is rounding six years now, I think, and while the monitor is getting less bright and sharp, the performance is clearly superior even to brand new PCs with tons of memory. Of course, you also need a $50000 server somewhere... :-) ~kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11561b,fddfe40d7da0fb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid11561b,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,fddfe40d7da0fb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,fddfe40d7da0fb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 10cada,fddfe40d7da0fb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cada,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,fddfe40d7da0fb18 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: Ketil Z Malde <ketil@ii.uib.no> Subject: Re: Are this parts good for a new system that will going to last for 6yrs? PII266 CPU, ASUS motherboard, #9 video cards, USR modem, SDRAM, Plextor CD ROM... Date: 1997/10/08 Message-ID: <KETIL-ytqu3esiruc.fsf@imr.no> X-Deja-AN: 278659284 Sender: ketil@triton References: <876143674.9621@dejanews.com> <34393321.42D9@student.uq.edu.au> Mail-Copies-To: never Organization: University of Bergen, Norway Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.misc,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.motherboards,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,aus.computers