Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Bluefish HTML Editor Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:33:00 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <17f6611a71a2cdd6$819$2507296$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:33:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="74a3c198f6e420da2184fde6b7ab3d52"; logging-data="1223481"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18BYTKno32xZfqVJ7dTGg4B" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5PFF/pW32d+yzfA1EpImWnllG+s= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2508 On 9/20/24 04:59, chrisv wrote: > The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> If Linux had existed we would never have had DOS > > Linux on an 8088 and 64k of RAM? 8) > > I guess the 68000 was also an option... > No but the 68020 with the memory management systen chip added might work. But those were not cheap when in productions. That is why the $5.00 68000 chip was chosen by Amiga/Commodore and why the memory management from TriPOS was discarded. I dunno why Mac went the same route. The memory for these old 16/32 bit chips was not very inexpensive either. I spent hundreds of dollars on memory expansions and on accelerator cards finally with the 68060 at 50 MegaHertz and about 32 Megabytes of ram. Still no real memory management and it had problems with running a text editor and a Web Browser. The great thing was that it had Aminet where shareware and freeware could be downloaded along with the latest patches. Linux is good but still Thunderbird cannot do the tricks that Yet Another Mailer did nor the Usenet access programs. Of course it was invented before .html was a standard and we only had to deal wth BBSes and ansi codes. bliss -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com