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Skriven 2010-04-22 18:52:14 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Wayne Chirnside
Ärende: the earth says hello
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Hey Wayne!

> There ARE coming down in price!

Mostly everything is.  Amazingly quality has either held it's ground or
improved.  Having said this, the garbage remains garbage regardless of cost.

> Later the badder full ATX motherboard :-)

That is what I did.  First try and figure out what additions might be
attractive on a mATX board and then see if that can be had on a full ATX.  In
my particular situation I wanted hotswapping sata and had to add that no matter
what sized board since nobody made one that has the SiL31{24|32}.  On the full
sized ATX currently running here I went with a pci-x 3124, which works with
modern pci slots at 66MHz, simply because of 4 ports.  As a bonus the
SiL31{24|32}'s can add a 5 port multiplier to each port potentially being able
to add up to 20 drives in the case of the SiL3124 but that really didn't
influence my decision. The hotswappability won me over.  Recently I saw a new
Asus ATX board with a SiL3132 onboard with two eSata ports.  However that board
would require a new cpu and ram which I am not in any position to exploit at
this point in time.  Interesting though.  Same could be said about the many new
Supermicro boards with onboard Matrox G200's.  A tad too pricey for me at the
moment but they sure know how to tempt me.

> And as I said I can snag later models of this sort of IBM for
> $50 a pop.

Definetly a good deal.  P4's?

> I think I had 98 on a machine

I've installed it in the past on others machines but never on anything I had
total control of.

> I never gave a thought to dual booting 98, seeya bye!

I did that on a few machines but again nothing that I had total control of.  By
the time Win2k came out I had already abandoned intalling anything from MS on
anyone's machine.  My quote at the time was, "Have fun." No regrets about it
here.

> my first was a Packard Bell with DOS 5.0 - Win 3.1.

I forget the manufacturer but mine was a 386 with a 20M hardrive.  It had an
early MS-DOS preinstalled which didn't last long and was replaced with an early
version of PC-DOS.  Then I started hacking which I learned how to do from a
couple of Sparc's I had access to at the time.

> Despite that 486-66's limitations

I still like 486's.  They were the first PC's I started to like. Didn't care
much for the 386 but it came in handy as a home computer for logging into a
network I had access to back then.  Also BBS's that were starting to show up on
the local scene at the time.

> Windows is malware IMO.

I think you're being too kind.  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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