[rescue] Re: SMP on intel wasteful?

[Andrew Weiss]

On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 11:21 AM, Gary Nichols wrote:

> Now now... we all know the Right Solution[tm] is to install WinME on 
> those
> old boxen.
>
> *ducks and runs*
>
> :-)
>

ME SUX ass!... No booting to DOS prompt... it's a crippled DOS-ish OS.

> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:
>> Much as I like Win2K compared to NT, I don't feel that it smokes...
>> unless you're talking about smoking weed.  It's perky on my Dual PPro
>> 200 1MB Cache with half a gig of RAM, but it sucks monkey nuts on a

Here I meant single CPU PPro 200.
>> single CPU P-200 256K with 128 MB RAM.  All the other machines I put it
>> on ... from a Pentium 90 to a Pentium II 233 (and all in between), 
>> and a
>> CyrixM333 didn't like it nearly as much for raw speed as they did NT 
>> 4.0
>> Workstation.
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Andrew
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