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> I also don't expect to be able to run VSCode on a 1996 Pentium 60. You don't? I can run VsCode on my laptop from 2005. I dont have anything older, but Debia
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> I also don't expect to be able to run VSCode on a 1996 Pentium 60.
You don't?
I can run VsCode on my laptop from 2005. I dont have anything older, but Debian does run on servers from 2005, and can probably run VsCode
Sure, mobile phones changes a lot between 2005 and 2015.
But in the past 5 years there hasn't been much progress
This sits with OS first and foremost, and we do this shit because we can get away with it.
We will have to change, this isnt sustainable
- whynaut 4y agoNo, you don’t… we didn’t even have multicore processing in 1996. 1995-2005 looks very different from 2005-2015.
- nikau 4y agoFunny, I had a dual pentium pro in 96...
- whynaut 4y agowhere were you/what were you doing? That line didn’t sell well until it was reintroduced, IIRC. you’re right though, I may be off by a couple years but correct for most I suspect
- nikau 4y agoInvestment banking area. We had a bunch of DECpc XL dual Pentiums a few years before that too. I'm pretty sure it was on nt3.51 at that stage with exceed for remote X windows apps and a bunch of bespoke win32 stuff.