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Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1

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At Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:08:23 -0700 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> 
> On 07/15/2015 08:33 PM, faeychild wrote:
> snip
>   the
> >> newsgroups so your warnings and mine are useful.
> >>
> >> DO NOT FEED The Trolls, kiddies,
> >> Signs of a troll look for multiple and apparently
> >> unrelated cross-posting to various newsgroups.
> >> Is the post on topic for the news group?
> >> Does the poster ever respond to your input?
> >>
> >> i have been reading the Usenet or at least groups
> >> that are of interest to me for over 20 years via BBSes
> >> and Unix accounts before getting my own ISP accounts.
> >> Lots of fun on 2400 baud modems in the day.
> >>
> >> bliss
> >
> > Oh Dear. Some memories there,Bobbie.
> >
> > My 58K modem, last and fastest: on a good night it would pull down 1Meg in
> > 12 minutes
> >
> > I remember all those OS/2 updates.
> 	
> 	I must be one of the few who never used 0S/2 and so never did those 
> updates.  I was using the Amiga 2000b with a accelerator board
> holding a 68060 at 50 Mega-Hertz and 64 Megabytes of ram.  I got TCP/IP
> running via a software called Miami from a guy who later went to work
> for a Northern California company and gave up on selling stuff to 
> pirates,  I had a 56K Modem as well as all those intermediate to the 
> 2400 baud modem.  Some were given to me by people who moved on earlier
> to a DSL, etc,
> >
> > And 58K was the fastest it would ever be. The experts told us the phone line
> > just could not support any greater rate. It was just impossible.
> >

The old phone lines in Western Mass are no longer able to go to 56K (at least
mine isn't). I have the throttle my modem down to 33K to get a reliable
connection.

> 
> 	Well they were expert in what they understood.  They had no idea
> where the technology would go.  Neither did I.  It was the technicians 
> and scientists working together that got us to multiple core CPUs in
> laptops that merely sip at power
> 	I remember continuous arguments over whether the x86s would ever
> get fast enough to emulate the Amiga.  I watched demos of the original
> Amiga emulation on a JIT compiler on a 500 Mega-Hertz Pentium laptop at 
> a AWest Convention about 2000.
> 
> 	But since the company was a nuisance to the investor the threw
> it away,   If he had stuck it out I might never have tried Linux.	
> 
> 	Good night
> 
> 	bliss
> 
>                                                                                     
> 

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Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-13 18:00 +1000
  Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-13 07:37 -0700
    Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-14 22:00 +1000
      Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-14 07:59 -0700
        Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> - 2015-07-16 13:33 +1000
          Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-15 22:08 -0700
            Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of  Happiness 1 Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-07-16 05:30 -0500
              Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of  Happiness 1 Andreas Kohlbach <july15.7.ankman@spamgourmet.net> - 2015-07-16 16:55 -0400
                Re: Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of  Happiness 1 Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-07-16 14:14 -0700
  Re: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1 noydb@no.way (Bruce Sinclair) - 2015-07-13 23:12 +0000

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