From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_cinnamon.com)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 12:52:30 EDT
AnimePhreak_at_aol.com said:
> I thought IBM would let you at least have the option of os/2.
Not for a while.
> Anyway,
> if you dont want to use windows just remove it and sell the license.
Hard to do when your windoze comes as only a "restore disk" that is likely
locked to your brand of hardware. In fact, I have a brand-new un-used copy of
XP that's on the restore disk for the Pr*s*r** 4400US that I am in the process
of replacing cinnamon.com [FreeBSD 4.6] with.
> Probably the best way to do it if you dont like MicroSucks. I'd love
> to use linux yet this is the only computer in my house besides a 486
> with a fried cpu
Ask and ye may recieve... I don't toss cpu chips when they still might be
useful. And there's a 486/66 plugged into a motherboard downstairs in the
"junk" bin, destined for recycle.
> and a mac lc(that mac lc is 16mhz). Cant really
> enjoyably run linux on either.
Kids! Back when I was your age, I would have KILLED for a 16MHz machine, 32
bits no less! All I had was eight bits, no subroutine call and a grand total
of 16 i/o ports to work with and 256 bytes of ram. Then when I added an
entire kilobyte of ram to the system, all of my programs BROKE!
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