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Thanks for writing! Well, I had used Debian for servers in the past and keep using it for synonymous activities up until this day. It... -
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@Priscus Whatever happened to Cray supercomputers? I imagine they must be dead, just like DEC. I seem to remember IBM used to be...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Not on a 'front panel', but you could do this from the operator's console. The one which I had used was in a University department, so...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Hi. Oddly enough, most of my working life was in a hospital were only myself, apparently, had the need to be using a computer until...
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@Priscus The PDP-11 those were the glory days of DEC. I still remember DEC's clunky "word processing" program MASS-11. PCs put a quick...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Once again, thanks for your comments. I was particularly interested in comments relating to UNIX and Linux from times past. I was...
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Thanks for writing up! Well, Fedora used to be really good, but they kinda messed it up. Debian is always very stable and Ubuntu is...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.I used to do that sort of thing back in the 8 bit (Z80/ 6502) days. At work I had been provided with a CBM 8096. It provided three...
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At my work we tasked an 80286 system to evaluating OS/2 Warp (the IBM OS), it was the first protected mode operating system for PCs and...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Cheers. Yes, I had omitted to mention, but I also ran Red Hat at the time, though it was out of curiosity rather than being put to...
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Tell me about it. I had a gaming system in 2001 (Intel Celeron Tualatin 1.3 GHz / GeForce2 MX 400 w. 64 MB memory / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.Thanks for your comments. I had only run DOS on this machine. Strangely enough, someone gave me a set of floppies containing W3.1 OS...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.My first PC was self assembled, constructed around the turn of the decade: 1980's/1990's CPU was a 486. do not recall whether sx or dx...
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PPriscus replied to the thread Question Advice on buying a Mini PC ?.ps Would love to hear from anyone building their own mini PC. Usually that has been my chosen option. Probably cost me more to self...
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PPriscus reacted to geofelt's post in the thread Question Need help and guidance on my first PC build i5-14600K with Like.
Your build looks good to me. On ram, I would be inclined to use a 2 x 16, 2 x24, or even a 2 x 32gb ram kit If you buy the minimum now...
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