Re: Explaining Linux

["Foz" <nospam [at] mmu.ac.uk>]

> 	While agreeing with you, I must say that the point that _really_
> pisses me off is the fact that even if (as you mention) you only need
> Word 6, and you need to buy a new computer, you won't find anything with
> less than a zillion megs (that's for the gfx card, times by 1e6 to get
> an idea of what you'll get on the motherboard), sound cards, modems...
Lemme see, my dad is learning on a 486DX2-50, 8Mb, Win 3.11, 
Office 4.3 all a basic computer needs really. There is no way I'll let 
my dad on the internet just yet, when i left him he was struggling 
on the mouse tutorial....

> While all this is very nice, and all, I wish I could just get hold of a
> decent computer. I just wished that microsoft had been happy with the
> 640k so people wouldn't be ripped off.
I am developing a peice of software (dos and linux compatible)  for 
text processing that uses the printers own optimised fonts and 
effects to print out on. I am hoping to keep the program well under 
64k so it is a portable program with the only thing needed is the 
source text file (using something similar to HTML tags for code 
selection) so I can have maximum portability what ever the system 
I am on: Linux, DOS, Windows, maybe other o/s if I ever get hold 
of the C compilers for them...
> 
> 	Mind you, I like this sort of brilliant soundcards for a tenner
> and stuff like that, but I am on the market for a cheap PC for Word
> Processing and stuff like that, and it seems that unless I decided to do
> some dodgy deals with some "low life characters" :) I can only buy a P3
> with specs that would leave NASA frightened...
I know what you mean.... Bill Gates we thank you for cheap, 
powerful hardware... I think... well I call £60 for a new m/b and 
450Mhz chip cheap anyway.

Regards,

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