Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: Keeping 'order' without RTC. Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 11:23:26 +0000 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net N2hEi2fmB9fc4tBdsyaeuAmiAFn2o/2tf9bRvSQdun5OTmKdrx X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:gxXU3+7aZAL2WvhoJF+SDuEDe7k= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:13868 On 04/03/15 10:43, Jack Strangio wrote: > "David B" writes: >> >> I think the first PC as we know it was 1981 (IBM) so it was a very very very >> long time ago in the eyes of a PC. >> > The IBM-PC was a latecomer to the scene. Most of us who had 'Personal > Computers' were quite disparaging of its early specifications.Originally > it was very restricted in terms of memory, and disk capacity. I was used to using minis and mainframes running unix and VAX/VMS. I recall looking at an early PC running DOS and thinking "what a primitive piece of crap" (aimed mostly at the barely-an-OS-more-of-a-monitor). For me PCs did not get useful until pentiums and linux and they matured with amd64 architecture.