On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:31:01 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
I was in a discussion here recently about 64 bit and how much
memory people had in their machines these days.
A somewhat unrelated topic is that Microsoft are in the process
of dumping XP.
Now all those old desktop boxes with
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 08:07:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:31:01 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
I was in a discussion here recently about 64 bit and how much
memory people had in their machines these days.
A somewhat unrelated topic is that Microsoft are in the
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:20:14 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 08:07:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 04:31:01 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
I was in a discussion here recently about 64 bit and how much
memory people had in their machines
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 11:20:14 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
I used the term XP lookalike by accident. I should have said XP
clone or replicate or something.
The Linux kernel must be powerful enough these days to support
complete replication of XP functionality
ReactOS targets exactly
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 12:20:53 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
My question would be: why bother? Why not just use linux?
People who can't afford modern machines or expensive
proprietary software is a market that linux caters for (almost)
uniquely well already.
John,
Please see my answer
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 12:20:14 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
If you're talking Linux, why not just use Linux?
To people who can just about manage to use outdated software on
XP, it's probably a big deal to switch to Linux. And is that
outdated version of Quickbooks available to run
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 18:04:44 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
I was being semi-sarcastic, since as far as I'm concerned,
Windows could die tomorrow. What I said was that Microsoft
might be doing themselves a favour in the long term if ...
I understand your point but I don't see this
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 18:04:44 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
To people who can just about manage to use outdated software on
XP, it's probably a big deal to switch to Linux.
That doesn't have anything to do with the OS. It's a mentality
problem.
And is that outdated version of
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 21:05:01 UTC, Stanislav Blinov
wrote:
On Friday, 28 February 2014 at 18:04:44 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
You keep repeating this as if no one in this NG understands
what you're saying. Respectfully, I'll say that you are wrong.
I know all too well what it is to
I was in a discussion here recently about 64 bit and how much
memory people had in their machines these days.
A somewhat unrelated topic is that Microsoft are in the process
of dumping XP.
Now all those old desktop boxes with only 500k of memory will
increasingly migrate in containers to
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