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Thoran · 09-09-2005, 08:33 AM

I've been constantly amazed at the ability of computer hardware to get cheap fast. It's been happening for decades now... starts out crazy expensive and before a year is out it's in the bargin bin a Wally world.

I betcha by the time Vista hits the shelves the hardware to run it will cost under a grand.

I also betcha it'll make that hardware (which will be very fast by today's standards) run slower than molasses in january.

I use command line interfaces daily for LOTS of things... even the venerable windows command line. Generally I find it's faster to command line for certain tasks than threading through 50 layers of menu's and dialog boxes (seems mostly networking tasks).

09-09-2005, 08:33 AM	#6
Thoran Galvatron Join Date: January 10, 2002 Location: Upstate NY Age: 57 Posts: 2,109	I've been constantly amazed at the ability of computer hardware to get cheap fast. It's been happening for decades now... starts out crazy expensive and before a year is out it's in the bargin bin a Wally world. I betcha by the time Vista hits the shelves the hardware to run it will cost under a grand. I also betcha it'll make that hardware (which will be very fast by today's standards) run slower than molasses in january. I use command line interfaces daily for LOTS of things... even the venerable windows command line. Generally I find it's faster to command line for certain tasks than threading through 50 layers of menu's and dialog boxes (seems mostly networking tasks).