re: Two curious errors I haven't seen before in this OS
Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 11:45 am
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Posted by Kiwi
(2209 messages posted)
When my nephew in Austin, an hour north of here, first became interested in PCs,
I hauled everything predating the P-II / K6-2 up there for him to tinker with. I
had to go onto eBay and visit some thrift stores to have P1 MMX processors to play
with, but I resisted the pre-MMX, pre-Pentium Pro, old stuff. No more MS-DOS for
me; I had my 20 years of command line experiece already, and that was enough.
I'm always running out of room for "stuff", like the favorite George Carlin comedy
skit (still sad he passed when he still had so much cogent to turn into laughs).
I have to separate "wheat from chaff" often around here!
I think that the drop from about 256 MBs of RAM down to 128 or less defines the "too
small, too slow" limit for W2K as much or more than the performance gap between either
a K6-2 or a P-II at 233 MHz, where I have often had Windows2000 run happily, and
the little 166 MHz rig I have going together right now.
(For Bob, I still have the Pentium 1 system breadboarded atop my only work surface
for that sort of thing, and that's also where I set up these oldies when they are
inside their enclosures. Otherwise, once assembled that far, they have to live in
shipping cartons so that they are more easily stacked back in the back of storage
spaces. The P-II PC complaining about User32.DLL didn't have any of the error messages
your link led to, but thanks. I'll get back to it in a couple of days.)
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Kiwi
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On Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 9:20 am, C K wrote:
>Ahhhh.. You are working with some ancient (by computer standards) hardware. If
>you lived down the street, I have some old 6, 8 and 10 gig drives as well as some
>other old hardware and motherboards that still work, that I would certainly donate
>to your cause. (software too, early 1990's) I just trashed some 1.6 and 3 gig WD's
>that were still good and some graphics/sound boards (had all the drivers disks to).
>
>
>Yes, W2K takes 4 times the machine power than does Win 9X, so I can imagine how
slow
>it would be on a 166. I have an old Asus P5A that runs W2K pretty well if you want
>it. I even had some memory that fit the old 386 and 486 boards and that went with
>the HDD's. If you lived in the USA, I'd be happy to send it all! Would help me
>make room for some other electronics coming in.. In fact, I was just sorting through
>parts and pieces yesterday that I no longer ever plan to, or have use for.. LOL
>
>I hate throwing useable things away, if someone can make use of it. (Love wood,
>hate particle board) ;-)
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