Could you PC loving Aholes go home?

[Iggy]

Sorry, I've used these things for years.
And they STILL suck.

I wanted to post this under a legitimate forum, but I knew I'd get thrown in the sock drawer.

We had an idea, in the 80's, that something better could be built.

We tried (on more then one front - my company did it with only a handful of people) and eventually lost out in the market.
It still hasn't quite happened.

Cause PCs, even developed by brute force, still aren't that great.

WTF?!

[Iggy]

Wow, you guys like wordy answers.
Stated more simply, Gates and company know how to imitate, assimilate, and absorb. So OS looks better but its one big, bloated, monolithic pig.
And Linux and Mac OSX suffer from the same problem.

And the number of transistors that have been thrown into the hardware is stupid high for perpetually diminishing returns.

And there is an alternative. It was there at the same time Linux started and should have received more consideration.
Micro kernal OS', Risc processors, and open standards that are documented.

We could have been there and we blew it.
Instead I'm being offered more new processors from the calculator processor manufacturing company and software from the vaporware OS guy's company.

Give them enough time and they'll polish the turd, but its still a polished turd.

[Iggy]

If you can honestly look at a modern PC motherboard and associated components and not see 2 decades worth of accumulated cleverness in the component parts and their interconnections then there's no point in me even trying to point any out. You simply don't, or won't appreciate it. Which is your prerogative.

My first experience of a PC was a typical, cost-reduced 8086 green screen affair. The one I am typing on couldn't be further from it. The *only* thing it has in common is a subset the instruction set the processor uses.

Wow, you had a "real" PC.
My first experience was soldering together a 6800 based system.
Man the circuit boards were crude.
Even unpopulated, a current circuit board is a complex thing of beauty with about 90% of its secrets hidden in its inner layers.
That's why it always cracks me up when someone discusses "making boards".

[Iggy]

...the only resource-hungry aspect of Linux is the x-windows system.

From what perspective?
CPU load?

Because, in that regard it would be one of the largest drags.

But depending on what you're doing, Linux based systems can have a lot of other resource hungry drags.

[Iggy]

Amiga: We still got it (in some areas)

And that's if you just sift through the left over decayed parts.
We could still own it all!