[Gloucs] As if I needed more reasons not to use Windows....

[Jill Tovey]

If you do decide to use 95/98/ME and have a nice fast PC, be aware that
it also won't use more than 512 megs of RAM


On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 09:12, Paul Broadhead wrote:
> Iain Calder <iain.calder@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > It's worth pointing out that Windows 95 and 98 are very old now, I
> > guess equivalent to the Redhat 4/5 era?  I wonder whether a Redhat 4/5
> > install would work on a modern system, with say a new Athlon chipset
> > or P4, USB, etc., and in fact there would be no point trying to
> > install such an old Linux distro as it would be extremely insecure and
> > updates are not available unless you roll them yourself.
> 
> This is a valid point and may be I could give one of these old distros a
> whirl on that spare 5GB partition.  Or may be I should just, finally,
> give debian a try....
> 
> As Guy pointed out, the main surprise was that Microsoft will not
> release a freely available patch for the problem.  They say that the fix
> is not intended for all systems so imply its a special fix for >2.1 GHz
> machines.  I would have thought they could provide a one fix suits all
> machines patch and have done with it, but what do I know.  Now if the
> source was available it would be a completely different story...
> 
> Paul
> 
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