From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30249 invoked by alias); 11 Jan 2004 17:02:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30241 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2004 17:02:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta10.adelphia.net) (68.168.78.202) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jan 2004 17:02:43 -0000 Received: from Win2k ([68.169.251.17]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040111170242.YRPB1458.mta10.adelphia.net@Win2k>; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:02:42 -0500 From: "Erik Jessen" To: "'Feneric Brown'" , Subject: RE: HW requirements Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000b01c3d865$e91cc860$6401a8c0@Win2k> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 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.