OT: decommissioned, was Re: Re: [plug] re: RAID5 & Hot Spares

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Ringer wrote:

> They run netscape 4? Only out of (5400-rpm-if-you're-lucky, 
> no-DMA-to-speak-of) swap, I fear.

The high school I went to had quite a few 486s with 16Mb of RAM (I think 
a couple originally only had 8Mb!!!).  Internet access was a 33.6K modem 
that connected at 26.4kbps shared amongst 20 computers.  They used a 
program by Artisoft called "iShare".  It was forever crashing.  All of 
the computers had Netscape 4 on them, which was also forever crashing.  
I think the reason for Netscape over IE was that at least when Netscape 
crashed it didn't take Windows (95) with it... well, not all of the time 
anyway. :P

That was my first experience with the internet... needless to say, it 
was truly traumatic :)


/ Ben