1 Feb
2006
1 Feb
'06
5:17 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I think a lot of very serviceable older hardware goes
into the landfill
because of performance issues that aren't necessarily related to preocessor
speed. Often, just increasing the memory and adding a faster (ATA6) hard
disk controller can make a huge difference on older Pentium I and II
machines. And it's these older machines that still have a few ISA slots
for older peripherals. I've just finished setting up a 200 MHz PII box
this way with Win98, RH9 and Win2K. Performance for most mundame
programmer-type tasks is very adequate.
Seconded. Most Pentium Pro and later machines will take 256MB of RAM,
which greatly increases what they can run (although faster I/O helps too).
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