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In my basement are quite some old but for the time powerful unix machines. SGI Indigo2, Sun Fire, a Pentium II with Knoppix Linux or my Samsung Laptop from 2010
by Aldipower 2y ago
In my basement are quite some old but for the time powerful unix machines. SGI Indigo2, Sun Fire, a Pentium II with Knoppix Linux or my Samsung Laptop from 2010 with Ubuntu 16.04.
They all boot up quite fast into a nice looking and snappy X Window system. Fantastic machines. Until.. You try to open a web browser, if there is even a modern one available. If you try to open a modern web browser on those machines, you suddenly get a feel how bloated our modern software and web is!
Although the SGI has the original Netscape Navigator installed, that is quite some fun in terms of historic reasons.
- likeabatterycar 2y agoPepperidge Farm remembers running Internet Explorer on SPARC Solaris until it was committed to the dustbin of computing history.
- ahoka 2y agoOr Outlook on HP-UX.
- pjmlp 2y agoSpot on, turns out Niklaus Wirth was right being disappointed with industry evolution.
- timcambrant 2y agoI imagine running a browser on a remote modern machine using X11 forwarding over SSH would work well enough to let vintage computers use the web as it is today. File downloads would have to be a separate operation using rsync.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> File downloads would have to be a separate operation using rsync. Or NFS (at which point it's a lot less separate)