On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 19:58, John Meinel <[email protected]> wrote: > If the hardware is from 2000+ then it is likely to have PAE support. And > running Win 98 just means it wasn't older than that. Win 2000 was a business > version, and XP as the next consumer version didn't come out until Oct 2001. > > What I saw on Intel's site is that roughly 1999 is when everything had PAE. > > So the question is how old is too old, eventually there will be a cutoff, 12 > years is pretty long. Plus the time that O is still supported. So close to > 15 years total. > > John
Thanks, John. The next time I am in that library I will check exactly what hardware is in there, and which Ubuntu it is running. I think that the point was made, though: Ubuntu is often/sometimes/occasionally used to breathe new life into working hardware. Please do not take that benefit away. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
