27 Aug
2006
27 Aug
'06
8:09 p.m.
On 8/27/2006 at 10:54 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I could use some - or 128s for that matter,
particularly if somebody _is_
throwing them away. This box I'm typing through
now was being thrown
away, and it's faster than anything else I'm running here! Only thing is
that
it has only the one 256 stick in it, and it'd
probalby be happier with
more
in there.
Agreed, it's surprising how fast some of the older P1/P2 systems can be
with enough memory and maybe a nice fast disk controller.
But beware--some older mobos will not support more than 256MB. Win2K's
memory footprint can get to be pretty big (over 100MB) even with no
applications, so memory helps. Don't overlook WIn98--it can run many
common 32-bit Windoze apps with much lower memory overhead than 2K or XP.
OTOH, NetBSD running KDE seems to set a standard for bloat.
Cheers,
Chuck