No kidding, mate. Still have old copies of D_mn Small Linux, Feather Linux, Peanut and even Puppy Linux that run well on a 486 with as little as 32 megs of memorey. Even a Red Hat that runs much faster (at 800x600) but needs at least 8 megs for the GUI to operate.
It will drop down to the command line if not, but I am not that comfortable with that option since the last time I used strictly command-line displays was when I was running 'DOS 5.0'.
I started up the Win 7 machine and it was running an update and stuff and now its been ‘thinking’ for 10 minutes and there aren’t even icons on the desktop.
I might just turn the thing off. Can we do that with Windows without messing it up?