The trouble with the old machines is the eventual death of irreplacable hardware -- Pentium-MMX CPU Fans, PATA disks and the like.
Emulators and virtual machines.....allow old copies of the OS to live forever. I am, however, waiting for the "virtual car", for the time that people can no longer get the little embedded systems that allow modern-day cars to run. The era of "fixing up an old car" which both trained you in auto mechanics and "gave you wheels" is coming to a close. md On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Michael Voorhis <mvoorhis@cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
On 03/30/2018 10:43 PM, Robert Schwein wrote:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/linux-puppy-der- turbo-fuer-uralt-computer-a-1194437.html> Interesting use of Linux.
Any OS that can be used with embedded systems will work well on mid-to-late 1990s PCs. The trouble with the old machines is the eventual death of irreplacable hardware -- Pentium-MMX CPU Fans, PATA disks and the like.
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