Sorry: Late reply, due to over a week spent netless. (Laying in firewood - winter is coming.)
On 06.03.15 11:35, Toby Corkindale wrote: > Yeah, I'd been wondering about that too.. The last 32 bit mainstream > Intel CPUs were the Pentium 4 range, from around 2004-2006, which is a > ridiculously long time ago in computing terms. But then, Erik did > mention the hard drives were 32 GB, which would date from even earlier > than then. So he's operating on 10+ year old hardware? The drives: yes. The mobo turned up its toes a couple of years ago, so I whipped in another - but the drives are still bigger than I need, and still spinning. (Everything worth backing up fits on an 8 GB USB stick.) > I'm actually surprised there's enough memory in the machine to run a > modern desktop environment and web browser. A 2004 era machine > probably only has between 0.1 and 0.5 GB of RAM. I think? It's now a bit newer (VIA C7), and has a whole 1 GB, so no drama there. Erik -- Australia ranks 44th for average connection speed, according to The State of the Internet Report from cloud service provider Akamai. - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-09/remote-rural-australians-to-wait-another-year-for-fast-internet/6079476 _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
