Re: Old computers - how did they do it?
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Originally posted by www.josh.org.uk
How could people have used computers so slow?!? I just don't get how it could be possible!
How can people use software so bloated these days? :D
'Back in the Day' that would have been an adequate machine to run something like AutoCAD 10, a pro CAD package.
But back in the day, we didn't need to see a file flap and fly onscreen from one folder to another to know it was done - a DOS promt did the trick with less overhead.
Amusingly, a 486 with Win 3.1, Word 6 and Pegsus Mail probably still does (more than) what 80% of the home computing population needs, at a useable speed!