Hi! On Mar 27 2020 04:57, Rugxulo wrote: > XP is dead as a doornail (since 2014), so is even Win7 nowadays. No > more security fixes. Those old cpus (and even modern ones) all have > vulnerabilities and various software workarounds, plus microcode > updates, which each have different costs (slowdowns) associated with > them.
I know. I'm not using any of this with the internet. If I run software of that time, off-line, I should be safe against modern attacks. I could still get an older computer virus. You know, how they used to spread: from floppy disk to hard drive and back... > How many cores does the 2007 machine have? AMD has a 64-core machine > nowadays. Hey, I'm no engineer, but newer has more cores, faster > single-core (higher IPC), more (faster) RAM, less heat / power > consumed, better graphics, and a billion other features (faster > bootup??). I think the standard back in 2007 was two. I'm not sure, I'll have to check. It might be a single core with Hyper Treading. > I'm not saying you can't run older hardware. Just be aware that a lot > has changed (and improved), even if sometimes there are regressions. The thing is that I keep those machines as a hobby. I wouldn't know what to do with them in a production environment. Nothing probably... most likely get rid of them. But for me they are computer history, so I have a collection of still working machines. Sadly I'm missing real history machines, like a NEXTstation or an 8088/8086 PC. Or an DEC Alpha workstation. A Macintosh running System 6. In this context it makes sense to run original software on those PCs, so it would be PC DOS, MS-DOS, DR DOS. PTS-DOS maybe, too. GEM. GEOS. You name it. FreeDOS would just a more modern addition, allowing e.g. data exchange to FAT32 storage, if I can connect such "big" drives. A. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
