http://blog.rlove.org/2007/11/dozen-years.html

This is kind of interesting. Back in 1995, I had no computer of my
own. And I remember the whole company had only a 486 computer
running Lotus 1-2-3.  Things change really quite fast in IT, especially
in hardware.

On the software side, I do not think it changes that fast. In 1997,
I started to use Windows 95. VAX/VMS was a bit strange but Pine was
not bad in accessing emails. A bit later we were using Exchange.
Netscape 3.0 was not bad as a browser. Office 97 was not bad.
PSpice 7.1 was fine.

Now it is Windows XP at work (ok, better than Win95), Lotus
Notes as Email (worse than Exchange, much worse than Pine),
IE/Firefox as browser (the network is not really that faster than 10
years ago). I do not need the extra functionality of later versions
of Office. PSpice is still slow in processing large data file and
still suffers convergence problem.

Xiaofan
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