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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 06:35:59PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > My Sun 3/60 has 24 slots. But the largest memory module that it will > accept is 1MiB (note: not 1GiB). So more isn't always better :-) > > As memory systems get faster, fan-out and signal path length matter > more.

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:59:44PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its over > 6 years old) > has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have that many. > (Just one point for where newer isn't always 'better' (whatever

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: o1bigtenor via talk > > | Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its > over > | 6 years old) > | has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have

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| From: o1bigtenor via talk | Not the OP but - - - - one issue I'm seeing - - - my main system (its over | 6 years old) | has 8 slots for ram. Almost none of the newer mobos have that many. | (Just one point for where newer isn't always 'better' (whatever that means! | - -

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 2:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > | From: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" > > | At long last I have created a final build recipe for my new desktop PC > | to run debian Linux. Replacing an ancient Dell PC running WIndows XP:

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| From: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" | Comments welcome. If you are worried about USB keyboard/mouse support in your OS, you should be also worry about NVMe / M.2 support. It's newer. Your old Windows probably won't support it.

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| From: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" | At long last I have created a final build recipe for my new desktop PC | to run debian Linux. Replacing an ancient Dell PC running WIndows XP: The i3-8100 is faster, cheaper, newer and has better graphics hardware than the i5-6500.

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| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:50:42AM -0400, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: | > *** I know that PS/2 is an ancient interface. I only chose PS/2 because it is my understanding that a PS/2 keyboard and mouse combination is better supported

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 02:47:26PM +, Ivan Avery Frey via talk wrote: > Some motherboards would interleave their memory accesses. I don't know if > that's true today. I don't think anyone makes one today that doesn't. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org

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. > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:27 PM > Subject: Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker > Recipe; > > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:14:57PM -0400, Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > It's probably too late to convince you of this (as I suspec

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.Eng. <apet...@aspetrie.net> ; GTALUG Talk > <talk@gtalug.org> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:14 PM > *Subject:* Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - > PCPartPicker Recipe; > > On 27 March 2018 at 09:08, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk <talk@gtalug.

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*** > *** I know that PS/2 is an ancient interface. I only chose PS/2 because it > is my understanding that a PS/2 keyboard and mouse combination is better > supported and earlier, during the actual Linux boot process, than a USB > keyboard and mouse combination. So PS/2 keyboard and mouse offer

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Giles, thanks for reply. My remarks, questions below. Steve - Original Message - From: Giles Orr To: Steve Petrie, P.Eng. ; GTALUG Talk Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe; On 27 March

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Lennart, thanks for reply. My remarks below. Steve - Original Message - From: Lennart Sorensen To: Giles Orr ; GTALUG Talk Cc: Steve Petrie, P.Eng. Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe

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On 27 March 2018 at 09:08, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > *Greetings To GTALUG,* > > At long last I have created a final build recipe for my new desktop PC to > run debian Linux. Replacing an ancient Dell PC running WIndows XP: > >-

[GTALUG] New Deaktop PC -- To Run debian Linux - PCPartPicker Recipe;

Greetings To GTALUG, At long last I have created a final build recipe for my new desktop PC to run debian Linux. Replacing an ancient Dell PC running WIndows XP: a.. https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Steve_Petrie/saved/#view=krFNNG The configuration is an Asus LGA1151 socket motherboard with