[TriLUG] Red Hat, GNOME, and Canonical, oh my

[Brian Daniels]

On 07/30/2010 07:37 PM, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> Clearly by now everyone has recognized the superior graphics of Atari
> 8bit computers.  I mean, so what if Commodore had better sound: It's
> just *sound*.  Like that matters.  Also: Sprites are for sissies.
> Player/Missile graphics and Display List Interrupts are what real people
> use.
>

I envied that ASDR envelope on my friends C64.  OTOH, I had a floppy 
drive that could load programs in less than an hour.

And we could play 4-player M.U.L.E.

--Brian

-- 
And yet less thanks have we than you.  Users scowl at us, and reporters
give us scornful names.  "Geek" I am to one fat man who lives a firewall
away from foes that would steal his identity or lay his little computer
in ruin, if it was not guarded ceaselessly.  Yet we would not have it
otherwise.
                                     ---Aragorn, sysadmin.


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