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RE: HW requirements
- From: "Erik Jessen" <ejessen at adelphia dot net>
- To: "'Feneric Brown'" <feneric at saugus dot net>,<xconq7 at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:11:10 -0800
- Subject: RE: HW requirements
Feneric,
Thanks! I know people who do ASCII-only for email, etc. because they
either have a slow connection, or want to avoid viruses. I'd expected
that for playing Xconq, they'd have to have newer hardware (and/or a
fast connection) to play Xconq, simply because of RAM/CPU
considerations.
This is really interesting.
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Feneric Brown
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 8:48 AM
To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: HW requirements
> How many people use VT100 any more?
You'd be surprised. I do the maintenance at a company that provides a
number of shell accounts to customers. The users typically fall into
one or more of the following groups:
1. Sophisticated users / designers who want a decent UNIX-like
environment with fairly up-to-date tools without having to maintain it
or handle the updating themselves;
2. Users who are blind and have all output redirected through either a
reader box or a Braille hand reader;
3. Users who are opposed to the upgrade cycle and who (often for
philosophical as well as financial reasons) have chosen to freeze their
hardware at a certain level that handles their own requirements (the
C128 is popular, but there are other makes & models that are also
used);
4. Sophisticated users who choose to route all their e-mail through a
system including combinations of things like Procmail, SpamAssassin,
JunkFilter, TMDA, Pine, Mutt, etc. in order to largely sidestep the
issues of spam and virii that so plague the modern world.
We maintain a bunch of games on the system, and I'd have to say that
Cconq (the VT100 version of Xconq) remains one of the most popular,
right up there with NetHack and the various IF titles.