[HECnet] Sort of off-topic, co-locating area 8

[Dave McGuire]

On 01/23/2013 06:49 AM, Brett Bump wrote:
I'm not too fond of windows past NT 4 for anything other than an
occasional game. ;)   I'd call it more masochism to be honest.   I DID
recently install it on a Pentium 4 though. ;) (Did you know it won't
boot on a P4 HT?)

I didn't.   And from what they tell me, that knowledge is now IN my
brain, and I cannot get those neurons back.

I think Dave has a few extra neurons to spare.   And if he can't get
these back they must be core instead of dynamic.   I think I'll see if we
can get him to exhibit a RSTS "?Program lost, sorry" message.

  If anyone can, YOU can...heck, you were the guy who introduced me to
RSTS, what, 27 or 28 years ago?

I still have 2 DECServer 3300's (Alpha's) that I installed NT4 TSE on
some time back before the turn of the century.   Dastardly slow, but the
only platform I had at the time at home to practice on to get Citrix
certified.

They really ran FreeBSD nice though, and since I had loaded 4 drives in
each one, I think I also had copies of NetBSD and Linux (loaded via Milo).
I wish they had been able to run VMS, alas they were the white elephants.
They wouldn't run FreeBSD V4, until we stole a patch from the NetBSD boys.

  Well it seems VMS can indeed run on those.   You wanna take the plunge?

                        -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA