On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Rob Malpass wrote:
> can I expect the CPU, the RAM etc to have degraded?
No. Silicon components essentially don't degrade, though they very
occasionally fail, usually either very early, or after many years.
It should be as fast, or slow, as it ever was.
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