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From: Clogwog on 4 Jun 2010 13:07
"High Plains Thumper" <hpt(a)invalid.invalid> schreef in bericht
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> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> philo wrote:
>>> RayLopez99 wrote:
>>>
>>>> Some background on me: programmer in C#, some of my programs are
>>>> run commercially, own my own business, heavy Windows user, very
>>>> knowledgeable about PCs (built about a dozen for myself and
>>>> friends from scratch, all Windows machines) hand RedHat Linux
>>>> dual booted about 12 years ago with NT.
>>>>
>>>> I have an old Pentium II (1996 or so) with a tiny amount of RAM
>>>> (about 26 MB!I think it says on bootup).
>>>>
>>>> Installed over a year ago DSL (ver. 4.2.5) on this old Pentium,
>>>> which stands for Damn Small Linux. System was running Windows
>>>> 2000 fine,
>>>
>>> <snip> total bull
>>>
>>> Win2k will not run with just 26 megs of RAM... even with 64 megs it
>>> would be too slow to be useful
>>
>> I think what Ray means is that all it has left AFTER it boots up
>> WinDoze.
>
> My venerable Dell Latitude C600 dual boot laptop with 850 MHz Intel
> Mobile and 512 MB RAM takes a long time to boot up and boot down with
> Windows 2000. To run Win2K on anything less would be insane, IMHO.
>
You Idiot, recommended minimum =128 MB, works like a charme on my old (1999)
Armada laptop 160MB / 450 Mhz!

From: philo on 4 Jun 2010 14:31
On 06/04/2010 10:53 AM, RayLopez99 wrote:
> On Jun 4, 1:26 pm, philo<ph...(a)privacy.net> wrote:
>
>> First off
>>
>> you lied
>>
>> you said it had 26 megs of ram
>>
>> now you've changed the number to 49 megs
>>
>> Though I am sure Win2k will eventually load with that amount of ram
>> it's essentially unusable...
>> especially considering a virus checker is required.
>>
>> I've set up hundreds of win2k machines and 128 megs is the minimum
>> needed to actually have a "functional" machine
>
> Shutup shiite bag. See my answer to Mike Easter.
>
> What you here for, net nanny? You're not helping anybody.
>
> RL


If you do not even know how to figure how much ram you have in your
machine I seriously doubt you have the ability to do any trouble shooting.

Since win2k works so well for you
just go back to it and forget about Linux

sheesh
From: philo on 4 Jun 2010 14:42
On 06/03/2010 07:33 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> philo wrote:
>> On 06/03/2010 02:52 PM, RayLopez99 wrote:
>>> Some background on me: programmer in C#, some of my programs are run
>>> commercially, own my own business, heavy Windows user, very
>>> knowledgeable about PCs (built about a dozen for myself and friends
>>> from scratch, all Windows machines) hand RedHat Linux dual booted
>>> about 12 years ago with NT.
>>>
>>> I have an old Pentium II (1996 or so) with a tiny amount of RAM (about
>>> 26 MB!I think it says on bootup).
>>>
>>> Installed over a year ago DSL (ver. 4.2.5) on this old Pentium, which
>>> stands for Damn Small Linux. System was running Windows 2000 fine,
>>>
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> total bull
>>
>> Win2k will not run with just 26 megs of RAM...
>> even with 64 megs it would be too slow to be useful
>>
> I think what Ray means is that all it has left AFTER it boots up WinDoze.



Once in a while I reply to stuff like that just to blow off a little
steam after work...

I am sure that's why he posts in the first place
From: RayLopez99 on 5 Jun 2010 19:59
On Jun 5, 6:27 pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> As much as Mr. Lopez acts like a troll, there is a small point from
> this. First reports of hardware capabilities are often mistaken, not
> maliciously, but because hardware behaves oddly or reports oddly.
> Systems that use system RAM for their video displays, for example,
> come up with some very odd RAM numbers indeed. Let's not hold folks on
> comp.os.linux.setup to such tight reporting standards, because they
> often don't know precisely how to verify such numbers.

Right. I am reporting what the BIOS shows. I could take the case off
and look to see how much memory I installed (since I built this system
over 12 years ago) but I'm too lazy.

RL
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