Re installing XP on Sony

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Thu Mar 3 22:37:51 CST 2005


David H. Barr wrote:
> Sorry, to me (sole IT provider for a nonprofit organization) a 5 year
> old computer running winXP is next years technology. MS-DOS 6.2(2) /
> Windows 3.1(1) would have been about as far as I can stand having to
> listen on a "classic" mailing list / forum / usenet group, and even
> that's pushing it to some extent.

Hopefully he won't come back in a few years and gloat how he got a complete 
Apple Lisa in original box with manuals+media for $20 at a yard sale or 
something :-)

It just seemed a bit hypocritical (not just you, all the harsh replies), 
especially considering we tackle "new software on old hardware" topics all the 
time (TCP stack for old micros, etc.)

Okay, back to my 8088 assembler optimization...
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