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

From Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Nostalgia for a slower world xRe: Happiness in Islam : Concepts of Happiness 1
Date 2015-07-15 22:08 -0700
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On 07/15/2015 08:33 PM, faeychild wrote:
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>> 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.
>

	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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