[c-nsp] Ode to the old days

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 05:09:09PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> 10 years is impressive, but I don't miss the "old days".  They were the
> days of too little bandwidth and crashing daemons, of immature protocol
> standards and rubbish implementations, of too little ram, trash cpus and
> underspecced fiber gear, all costing too much money.  

And vendors that actually cared what their users asked for (at least
if you offered some money as bait).  And understood protocol specs.

Nowadays?  "No other customer ever asked for that"

Yes, there might have been more bugs in basic stuff, but people cared
about making that stuff work.  Now, all you get is "more shiny" (and
more insane list prices so you could get more impressive discounts).

gert
   not bitter, but quite annoyed

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