[jhb_airlines] Re: FSX Official Add-On Acceleration
- From: "bones" <bones@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb_airlines@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:31:52 -0000
I think I still have a copy of DR-DOS somewhere.. I definitely have DOS5.1
on three floppies..
Like you my first PC was a direct result of us getting Compaq 386's at work.
After hacking the system and installing FS4 on it <g> a purchase was
inevitable but by the time I could afford one things had moved on. My first
PC was a 486 DX4/100 from Dan Computers (I wonder what happened to them?)
and it turned out to be the only PC I ever bought. Subsequent upgrades
evolved into rebuilds and I'm still doing that now.
Remember when 4Mb RAM cost 120 quid? <g>
bones
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[mailto:jhb_airlines-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Brook
Sent: 05 November 2007 12:59
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Subject: [jhb_airlines] Re: FSX Official Add-On Acceleration
>
> These days, hardware development is way ahead of software, I can
> remember when software drove hardware development, yes I am showing my
> age here.
>
I'm not sure that I agree that H/W dev is now way ahead of S/W. This is
certainly true when it comes to the much neglected FS but the S/W developers
writing gaming S/W for the great unwashed masses are more than capable of
keeping up with H/W developments (S/W development is a LOT cheaper than H/W
development of the sort now needed) and the H/W developers are still finding
it difficult to stay one step ahead (as they always have done!).
> Do you remember when the DOS OS came on a 5 and a quarter inch
> floppy?? even the first Windows came on a few of the latest 3 and a
> half stiffies. I do.
>
> These days, it is a couple of DVDs or more uugh!
>
> Enough.
>
> FF
>
Ooooh, don't get me started down that road or I'll start reminiscing about
my 1967 experiences with an Elliot 803
http://www.sli-institute.ac.uk/~bob/elliott803.htm
(they were very proud of their 'portable' version which fitted in the back
of a Landrover), or of writing and debugging huge proggies in Fortran IV and
being able to visually read punched tape, or clandestinely getting a huge
Hewlett Packard 2116B mainframe to play Xmas Carols in 1970, or buying an
HP-35 calculator in 1972 and an HP-65 in 1974 (still got it!), or using a
DR-DOS OpSys on a 286, or laboriously writing in Cobol, Basic and Machine
Code or buying a Compaq 386 (for my Company) that cost GBP8000 in 1986, or
struggling with the really early versions of Windoze, or wasting a grand on
a RISC cored BBC Archimedes box of rubbish, or, or ...
M.
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