Some wise person said, "Why do we need faster and faster hardware?? Slower and slower software of course!? And it's even worse than that; software is getting slower and slower faster than hardware is getting faster and faster."? IEEE Spectrum magazine has an article in the April 2024 issue about lean and green software.? ?It's about time.? ? ? ? ? ? Jim
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On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 6:29 PM, Bruce Atwood<CCDman1@...> wrote: Everyone has to find there own solution but I have three identical laptops, all bought? used. (I bought the first one to receive a clone of the one I was using before I retired, they did not give it to me as a going away present.) One is XP with a 1TB HDD and about 70 Apps.? I would be hard pressed to re-install many of the Apps so I "backup the HDD by cloning it.? I also have a Windows 10 32 bit machine with a 512 GB SSD for routine email and browsing.? Again, I back it up by cloning it to another SSD.? Note that I have not been able to find a definite answer as to how long a SSD holds it data with no power so I try to clone it monthly.? And finally, since Turbo tax has screwed all of its long time users in a variety of ways, including insisting on a 64 bit OS, I now also have a 64 bit W10 machine.? Note that all three laptops are? Dell E4310s and while not exactly identical the HDDs or SDDs will boot fine in any of them thus backing me up for a laptop failure.? Hope I haven't jinks myself by writing down all this.? I haven't tried accessing the new and improved TekScopes from my XP machine but it seems to work fine from my W10/32 Bit with ThunderBird for mail and FireFox for browsing.
As to why all this is necessary there are some real improvements in security with the newest processors and auxiliary chips but I suspect that both the hardware and software firms motives are not pure as the driven snow.? Both of them make money selling replacements.? The software folks say you must have the latest OS for our latest and greatest software and the hardware guys can say you need new hardware to run the latest OS.? There ought to be a law.
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