Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Leon Goldstein]

Andrew Gould wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com 
> <mailto:kwall at kurtwerks.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:38:13AM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
>     >
>     > FYI - Caldera eDesktop 2.4 is still available from CheapBytes!
>      (I'm not
>     > sure about the legality, however.)
>
>     But it's old and crufty at this point.
>
>     Kurt
>
>
> Don't get me wrong -- I would never advocate its use today.  I just 
> got a kick out of seeing that it was available.  Can you image the 
> driver hell of installing it on new hardware?  And what is the current 
> life expectancy of hardware produced circa 1999, anyway?
>
> My needs were simpler then; and it was a very fun time.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>  
>
Echoing Bill Campbell's post, old and crufty eDesk 2.4 can keep an old 
PC out of the land fill.  A few years ago  I installed it on an old P 
166 system for an elderly neighbor who wanted to get on the internet and 
type letters.  IIRC the version of Netscape that came with eDesk was 
buggy, so I had to update it.  For word processing eDesk included the 
limited version of Word Perfect 8, which the elderly user found to be 
quite friendly after a little bit of practice.  And all of this on 64 MB 
of RAM!

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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