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To: Jean S
You are certainly welcome.

I got my first PC in 81, and STILL have a faded, single sided 5.25 floppy that says it's IBM PC DOS v 1.03

I manage a machine the looks like this , it has a terrabyte of hard drive, 8GB main memory, 4 1000MB/S ethernet ports, and can simultaneously run 16 operating system images.

I recommend dual boot because I decided long ago I AIN'T losing data again.

And I haven't.
54 posted on 04/17/2009 6:04:04 PM PDT by djf (Live quiet. Dream loud.)
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To: djf

LOL, you’ve come a long way baby!


55 posted on 04/17/2009 6:11:48 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: djf
I manage a machine the looks like this , it has a terrabyte of hard drive, 8GB main memory, 4 1000MB/S ethernet ports, and can simultaneously run 16 operating system images.

Mainframes must have gotten smaller nowadays.

I've been a systems programmer since the early seventies.

My Mac Pro has four engines at 2.66Ghz with
1.5 Terabytes of DASD and 5 gigabytes of ECC memory
with gigabyte ethernet ports.
I run a number of VMware fusions
with XP and SuSE under OS X Unix©

They are now selling Mac Pros with
eight engines at 3 Ghz
& 32 gigabytes of ECC memory


56 posted on 04/17/2009 6:39:51 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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