Or Botton wrote:
> Personally, I believe that the entire idea is to find away
> to clug the CPU with more work, so you'll have to buy a
> better, faster computer later. I know it sounds like
> Wintel bashing, but I cant find any logic in selling
> low-cost 500MHz which will run at the same speed (and most
> probebly the same cost) of a real 350MHz computer.
That sounds about right, but also to get the hardware into
their court. You wouldn't want any mother boards floating
around out there which were capable of running a "real"
operating system now, would you? <g>
Speaking of "real" OS. Check out www.vmware.com for a much
more interesting way to eat up resources. This virtual
machine software which runs in Linux, can run a bunch of
different operating systems at the same time. That is, you
could be running Win95, win98, a couple of copies of NT,
Linux, and Unix all in different "windows". Each OS is set
up on it's own virtual machine. Aparently you can watch
Win98 crash, reboot, and run scandisk .... all in it's own
little window without touching anything else.
Oh,.... did someone say survivor pc? Hmmm, yes this
piece of software aparently requires something like a P300
with 64Mb of ram in order to work at all, but aparently
with a measly 128megs of ram, it runs quite snappily.
Anyway, it's nice to see Microsoft Bloatware being
relegated to "a window" under something else, rather than
it's usual aggressive position.
Cheers,
Ole Juul
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