Subj : Re: 386 OS/2 Woes...
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Vorlon
Date : Sat May 06 2023 17:21:02

Hi Poindexter,

 On Friday May 05 2023, Poindexter Fortran said to Vorlon:

 Vo>> What the avreage person dosn't understand is that due to that products
 Vo>> bloat it takes a tank to run... Do the same task on Linux/BSD and it
 Vo>> will run with a quarter of the requirements.

 PF> I had a lot of success with single-core CPU Thinkpads. Most of them had
 PF> 2 GB of RAM and spinning drives, and when we went from XP to Windows 7,
 PF> they had a hard time. I found a company that made PATA SSDs, threw
 PF> Lubuntu on them and got another 5-7 years of useful life out of them.

I did the same thing, except the machines I did it to already had SATA
ports. The most common was doing laptop's, and then desktop's...

Had one client go from a 5minute startup/stable usable system, to the same
in 30s, just from imigaging the hd to the SSD. When they saw the difference
they were quite willing to pay for the extra. This was when 500Gb drives was
rather higher in price to a 256Gb one...


\/orlon
aka
Stephen

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