On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 10:22:58PM -0400, Alan Harnum wrote:
As always, feedback will be greatly appreciated, and public
response is preferred. Previous parts are at
<http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics#ham>
Now, presenting Harnum's HaM Commentary... Part Three in a series.
Sponsored by Purina Puppy Chow, and Panglossian Pessimist Society of
Western Canada.
Wazzat... do they go around claiming that everything is the worst of
all possible worlds? Where's my local branch?
Gosunkugi Hikaru saved the message on his computer with the
others. The hard drive on his obsolete 486-DX was nearly full; he made
a
note to clear out some old messages before checking mail again.
Five years have passed since the end of the manga, right? Even if you
consider the manga to have ended in 1996, that still makes it 2001.
A 486-DX isn't just obsolete by that time, it's an antique... Heck,
the one and a half year old computer I have now (Pentium something
or other) is already obsolete, and in three years, it'll be an antique.
If you want to stickle for details, I'd give Hikaru something more
powerful than a 486-DX as his obsolete computer...
Now, come on, here. I'll give you a practical example: konatsu.ml.org
is a 486DX2-66 with 20MB of RAM. It handles my incoming mail (~400 messages
per day), the Synopses List submission line, the webpage, and it provides
Internet connectivity to the rest of my home network via Linux's ultra-neat
IP Masquerade function. I've never seen it's load average go above 0.1 in
normal use. (actually, it's usually stuck at 0.0) In other words, it
could handle many, many times the load it does now without much trouble.
This for a computer that is hopelessly obsolete, and will be an antique
in a couple more years... :D
Look at it this way... You can check your mail with a 486 today; what's
preventing you from being able to do so in 2001?