Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 9 Aug 2025 04:49:34 GMT Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <20250807085908.000006a3@gmail.com> <107522e$oqfg$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5kwrjk7d/1nWwR1DkI625AF76uN60P0hcXzd/pYLKEmaCkHrV4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PcW3U89wmO6HhpiP8FnCQ13bK2E= sha256:vgEo5UftIHUZpe2/+I/fgEZ/Mi1VKLgIGeU/yAbE06Y= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70650 alt.comp.os.windows-11:21825 On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 22:58:24 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 8/8/25 8:40 PM, rbowman wrote: >> On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 23:02:20 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: >> >>> The next step were V90 modems and a phone number that did not charge >>> by the minute. It took perhaps a decade before we got ADSL. >> >> At one point in the early '90s when I used Delphi you could use a local >> toll free number to tie into the 2400 baud backbone. High tech. AOL >> used the same scheme except their app or whatever you want to call it >> was a lot fancier than Delphi's. People would connect, get a message >> that AOL was updating, and take the dog for a long walk. > > There were local numbers for BBS back in the 300/1200 baud days. Alas > the range was mostly like two or three counties. > Toll-free came a bit later - but it meant the sites HAD to earn at > least a little profit somehow. > > 300 baud was fun - you could actually read the incoming text in real > time :-) That was my first exposure to BBSs via a 300 baud acoustic coupler. iirc it was a toll call from NH to the BBS in the North Shore (MA). The box in question was a no-name PC clone with a turbo switch on the front panel if you wanted to live dangerously. Like a certain troll in this neighborhood running with an open case wasn't uncommon. The clone makers were winging it with the cooling capacity when they overclocked.