Re: LLUCE vs. METAL: A losing battle

[90taobri@chasm.scar.utoronto.ca (Brian Tao)]

The following revelation escaped Roy Barrett's lips:
> 
> It's up to you, would you rather run a PC that costs a few grand and gets
> obsolete in a year, or use your GS, which may have cost you a few grand in
> 1986, but it won't get obsolete for years to come?

    Most of the GS was technically obsolete a couple of months after it
came out, but obviously it isn't functionally obsolete now, six years
later.  Most people forget that distinction.  That's why you see people
lining up to get 486 motherboards so they can call BBS's and type up
essays and reports at 32 MIPS...

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