CF wrote:
I dunno if its a prioritising thing or a geek thing - but who here has given their cast-off PC to the missus/kid/whatever while keeping the best one, and which of us have got the shirtiest machine in the place?
I've given my cast-offs to my alter-ego's. Logistically I would have some difficulty casting them off to a spouse or child, because I do not have a spouse or child currently (or at least any I'm aware of!)
Firstly I gave my old Atari 1040ST to my "80's reminiscing persona", who is sometimes invited to play with such an old beast....
Next I gave my Atari Falcon030 music workstation to my "early 90's music maestro, and wannabe hippy dude", and he still likes to dabble with this machine, even though the real me uses Aranym to emulate this machine at a higher speed than the original ran at...
And finally I kept my Terminator 1100 to myself...reason being that it can emulate the other two faster than they can run natively, and also there is this thing called Linux installed on it... ;-)
BTW, both my old Atari's have run MiNT, a unix-alike OS for Atari's, and the Falcon030 (32MHz MC68030) had Linux/m68k, which is a version of Debian 2.2 compiled to run on the Atari mc68030 based machines. X ran at 640x480x256 colour (slowly, but it did!). Sadly when I made an ISO of my Atari Falcon030 hard disk to run the emulator I had taken linux/m68k off it. It would have been interesting to see Linux booting from emulated mc680x0 instructions in a window on an x86 based Linux setup... :-)
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
