My network at home is a random assortment of machines. The oldest guy (the Designed for Windows NT machine) is getting ready to go to Staples to be recycled after I wipe out the hard drive. I always try to keep a beater on my network for testing. My thought is that if something I write runs fast on the older hardware running a copy of a later OS, it will scream on what is currently out in the marketplace. I am running Windows XP on a Pentium III w/256M Ram. Couple of tweaks, couple of driver changes and I use this guy as a VPN client and to browse the web. [Some days I even run sql on this guy.]
I can show my age here. I started writing in C and Business Basic. I can remember when I only had 64 K of RAM. Machines were not forgiving. If you wrote bad code, your crap ran slow. It was too expensive to throw more hardware so you wrote elegant, efficient screaming code.
Now that my beater is going away, I wonder what I will use now to test?
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My first home computer which I bought in 1987 had a whopping 30 meg hard drive! I think I have pictures on my computer that are 30 meg!!!
You know I'm a Mac girl. Well, now I am working and we have Windows Vista at work. Ugh!!!! I bought Windows Vista for Dummies. I think the first page should read, "If you have Windows Vista, you are, by definition, a Dummy. So you've come to the right book."
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