Reply to: Windows 2000 lives

[TheMonkey]

I live in the past.

I think that 8 bit os written in PL/M are cool.

CP/M I used to love that. Until I discovered RISCOS and UNIX.

[TheMonkey]

http://www.iyonix.com/ is even better (if you live in the past and think 32 bit OS designed in the 1980's are cool)

Horrible machine. Nothing outstanding. I had one for a while.

RISCOS still can whip a lot of arse!

[DimPrawn]

http://www.iyonix.com/ is even better (if you live in the past and think 32 bit OS designed in the 1980's are cool)

[TheMonkey]

and I'm still trying to find the time to get an Acorn Archimedes hooked up to the home network

Now there's a PROPER computer. I was brought up on those lovelies after I'd worn out my BBC Master. I am actually looking at one of these for a quick 600 quid down the pan:

http://www.advantage6.com/products/A9home.html

Yes it's a modern acorn archimedes (well RiscPC). Yes that is the little blue box next to the TFT and yes that is ALL that it is. It's got everything you need for a basic workstation and it runs on the electricity a small field mouse can generate on a wheel.

[GeorgeGregan]

A certain well known investment bank I was contracting at a few months ago still runs w2k on all its desktops. While it might have a smaller memory footprint you'd be surprised how much stuff you miss from XP. Especially from a development point of view, lots of APIs you would think were bog standard that didn't exist until XP.

[hattra]

Hmm.... and I've got a garage full of old Proliant servers

and an obsession with upgrading a dual P133 DEC Prioris

and I'm still trying to find the time to get an Acorn Archimedes hooked up to the home network

Why? That's what I want to know

Time to go an lie down for a bit.................

[TheMonkey]

That's nothing, I run 12 virtual machines on a P3 666Mhz 'for fun'.

Yeah I do similar strange things. I have a Sun Ultra 30 with solaris on it for no particular reason and a pile of dead circa 1992 Sun workstations under the kitchen table.

[NoddY]

That's nothing, I run 12 virtual machines on a P3 666Mhz 'for fun'.

[TheMonkey]

[Cowboy Bob]

I often lurk on the middle floor of the tower with a Sniper rifle clearing the path for the team to go hot. Nice getting "Wicked Sick"!!

CAMPER!!!

[TheMonkey]

Didn't know there was a UT2004 map for that. I should get out more

[hyperD]

playing Unreal Tournament (the original) CTF Facing Worlds with 7 other people

Ah yes, great map. Often play the UT2004 CTF-FaceClassic map with 5 other people on ADSL, server local and Skype conference. Set the UT2004 server INI file to cap the upload stream/player.

I often lurk on the middle floor of the tower with a Sniper rifle clearing the path for the team to go hot. Nice getting "Wicked Sick"!!

[TheMonkey]

Dropping all services apart from network you should get around 110Mb footprint.

This poor machine is a dual P3-550 with 256Mb of RAM. Win2k has a 64Mb foorprint after boot to desktop on that.

I'm going to grab a gig of RAM for it, another SCSI disk and a couple of P3-700 CPUs and see if it's liveable as a workstation and flog the other thing I think.

[hyperD]

I have done. It's still slow. The memory footprint is horrid.

Dropping all services apart from network you should get around 110Mb footprint.

[TheMonkey]

I have done. It's still slow. The memory footprint is horrid.