>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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