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Punched a number of cards in pursuit of natural science, never did get to Fortran77 since it wasn't 1977 yet. On a new W98 PC after reverting to a more optimiz
by fuzzfactor 7y ago
Punched a number of cards in pursuit of natural science, never did get to Fortran77 since it wasn't 1977 yet.
On a new W98 PC after reverting to a more optimized W95 install without including Windows Networking, using a top hardware modem on a clean POTS line having full 56K performance, the snappy user response sometimes seen today with broadband at sites like Ebay, Amazon & Yahoo, was usually outmatched by almost all sites at the time, and that was with only a 100MHz Pentium, 32MB memory, and less than 1GB HDD.
You could generally browse faster on dial-up (once logged in) than you can on broadband today.
Downloads OTOH were dramatically slower with such a limited data rate.
Nice MIDI was also standard on all consumer PC's, without USB latency.