2006-02-14 (火) の 23:07 -0600 に Mike McCarty さんは書きました: > Joel Rees wrote: > >>>#4 My comment about WinXP running like a dog was predicated on Windows > >>>98 era systems...i.e. =< 128Mb RAM, =< 600Mhz Pentium III and evidently > >> > >>Umm, I have a Pentium 90HMz 32MB machine which runs Win98 like a champ, > >>but just barely chugs with Linux. I haven't loaded WinXP on that > >>machine. Linux takes about 30 minutes to boot (Knoppix). I'm not sure > >>XP would fit. > > > > > > XP would die. > > Very possibly. Knoppix has died a few times on that box while trying > to boot. > > > Suggest netBSD for that ancient box, if you are interested in really > > I've got an old copy of FreeBSD, but it does what I need already. Why > change it? > > > using it. (Unless, of course you have an aging aunt using the box with > > dialup and only seeing the web through a non-MSIE browser that does not > > do javascript or active-xxx.) > > My mother uses it for running games like solitaire, hangman, etc. > We also have some spreadsheets on it which get updated a few times > a year, and printed. Then MSW98 is probably what the box should run, just like the two old 68K era Macs I have are better used for running Mac OS 7 than for, say, netBSD. I would love to have the time to get them running netBSD or a stripped-down debian, load a light-weight window manager on them, etc. But I would not likely get more use from them that way than I do now. > It has no connections to a network, nor to the web. > All file transfers take place via floppy disc, so the spreadsheets > can be printed. Information only goes into that box via keyboard > and mouse, and comes out only via display and floppy disc. Yeah, some people say a computer that isn't hooked to another computer isn't a computer these days, but there is still plenty a stand-alone computer can do. (Must be the moon, 'cause I can't concentrate on work either.)
