27 Aug
2006
27 Aug
'06
11:28 p.m.
On Sunday 27 August 2006 11:09 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8/27/2006 at 10:54 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Well, this one's an Athlon 850. :-)
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.
I try to find stuff on the MB if I can, usually.
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.
I don't run any of that stuff here, excepting one box that's got 98 on it
that'll soon be a dual-boot setup.
OTOH, NetBSD running KDE seems to set a standard for
bloat.
KDE is a pig, no doubt about that. Never did get around to trying any of the
BSDs here, I've been pretty happy with Slackware overall.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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