[SunRescue] we're all just spoiled (was: re: IPC)

[GregoryLeblancgleblanc at cu-portland.edu]

> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:11:37PM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> > Like many on this list
> > I'm sure, the people around me are amazed at what you can actually _do_ with
> > an "old" computer. *grin*
> > You just have to remember you're driving a VW Bug instead of a Jaguar. ;-)
> 
> One thing I used to notice back when I worked tech support at an ISP:
> 
> The people who NEED good computers (ISP techs, sysadmins, etc) have 
> old crappy machines held together with duct tape & bailing wire and
> trips to Goodwill.


That's almost always the case, I see it all the time.

> The people who DONT need good computers (doctors, lawyers, etc - the people
> who use their computers ONLY for stuff like email, wordperfect, lotus/
> excel, etc) have the 2Ghz 200Gig Athlons with the 24" monitors.


The people who I think DON'T need big fancy machines and actually
shouldn't have then, are the people doing a lot of coding.  I hate when
developers have been using 21" monitors running at 1280x1024, or worse
yet, 1600x1200, and I try to use the same app on my notebook with a
640x480 display.  Not to mention that their biggaHertz machines are
doing something in 5 seconds which takes my cyrix 133 like a half hour
to finish.  ok, enough rant,

    Greg