![]() Once you’re forced to upgrade anything, you can end up having to upgrade just about everything. Of course a lot of the software around today requires a fairly recent OS, and there’s no guarantee that the new OS will run your old software. I tried Opera because the 386 my office provided for internet access was painfully slow running the latest version of Netscape… When I first started using Opera I was running it from a single floppy disk, with plenty of space left over for cache and saved web pages. Opera is one of the most efficient browsers, but even that needs a lot more resources today than it did back then. ![]() Try web browsing with 10 year old software and see how many sites can be displayed correctly. Unfortunately none of them are much use when my colleagues use the latest version of Office, and expect me to work on files in its formats. ![]() In fact, a lot of the work I do today could be achieved on my old RISC OS system, with 4Mb RAM and a 25Mhz CPU. For word processing I was always very happy with Ami Pro, which ran brilliantly on a 486. ![]() I was happy enough with Office 97, which ran fine on my 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb RAM. That’s true, but as the rest of the world upgrades to the “next big thing”, it can be hard to avoid having to do the same. Whatever programs it used to run back then, it still runs them just as well today and it will still run them just as well in 10 years from now. Your computer does not get any slower with time.
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