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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @07:51AM (#35339260)
> 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

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by whynaut on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:33AM (#35340787)
No, you don’t…

we didn’t even have multicore processing in 1996. 1995-2005 looks very different from 2005-2015.

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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by nikau on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:46AM (#35354336)
Funny, I had a dual pentium pro in 96...
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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by whynaut on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:30PM (#35365431)
where 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
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Re:You're making me buy a new phone by nikau on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:13AM (#35383295)
Investment 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.

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