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Title: Best Operating System
Post by: flash on January 18, 2009, 09:45:30 am: So,

With all these options and in light of my recent 'HD Death',

What do ya recon?
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: techno_wiz_oz on January 19, 2009, 05:35:16 pm: That is a tough one. I think it depends on what machine though...however I have these tiny little libretto laptops (size of a VHS tape from 100-266mhz) and even the AMD 5x86 100mhz machines zip along with Win95 with just 8mb of ram :)

I didn't really like Win98 in the day, Millenium was FAIL and win2k takes forever to boot compared to XP. So XP it is really as even on a 300mhz celeron IBM 240 laptop it boots up in about 30 seconds. So XP x86 it is then for me :) Vista is 'ok' but nothing more...nice GUI upgrade though even if it does destroy some notebook graphics cards through overheating them by having the 3D engine constantly engaged!

(Win 3.1 was a waste of time for me too..I was happily using Workbench on my multitasking Amiga and even GEM was nicer and OS/2 well everything really ;) )
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: flash on January 19, 2009, 06:25:39 pm: Just mentioning the Libretto, I have 3 of them also.. I loved em! (think I stuck a pic on the gallery)

Great machines even with 95. Overclocked - of course ;)
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: techno_wiz_oz on January 19, 2009, 07:46:56 pm: I won a job lot on ebay of the lowly CT30 (5x86 100mhz no sound chip 8mb 810mb HD) untested for approx £3 each. They're awesome little machines and with C64S using the 'PC Speaker' option they make great portable C64 machines........Ghostbusters on the train people really look at you funny.

I've got a CT100 with the overclock mod to 266Mhz with the super expensive extra 32mb (yeh a whopping 64mb) running XP. I even installed AOL v5 a couple of years ago and went in a chat room and typed on it...that was not good for my eyes ;)
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: flash on January 19, 2009, 07:49:55 pm: I have the 100CT overclocked also. Runs loads of MAME games fine, and c64, pc engine... etc.. Have to use older DOS versions - but hey.

Yeah, I bought the extra 32meg and put a 40 gig HD in, not that you can adress it all though :(
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: techno_wiz_oz on January 20, 2009, 09:31:51 pm: Quote from: Flash on January 19, 2009, 07:49:55 pm
I have the 100CT overclocked also. Runs loads of MAME games fine, and c64, pc engine... etc.. Have to use older DOS versions - but hey.

Yeah, I bought the extra 32meg and put a 40 gig HD in, not that you can adress it all though :(

Ahhh what OS is on yours? See I don't know how but mine just worked when I installed XP using a similar Toshiba (so I could boot the XP CD) and transferred it over and slotted it into the Libretto. I think it was a 30gb drive split into two partions using NTFS. I did read about the BIOS limit but later on read that XP overcomes the limitation somehow.
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: flash on January 20, 2009, 09:46:46 pm: win 95!

Did not bother trying XP as all the emu's I was running on it were dos!
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: BaDToaD on January 22, 2009, 06:53:42 am: I don't know why they don't release a Libretto model now. Back then it was way ahead of it's time and very much in a niche market but today it would be huge... forgive the pun.
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: flash on January 22, 2009, 07:16:46 am: sorry, but I sadly can not forgive that pun :)
Title: Re: Best Operating System
Post by: flash on February 16, 2009, 10:25:38 pm: Not entirely sure that the voting proved anything :)

Oh well, I am back to Vista