Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: polygonum Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 20:58:44 +0000 Organization: me Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net O8DCMgq3/rBtI3EU/qtUswy6hyutmDTbuclgMDx+asCIcxIa0= Cancel-Lock: sha1:dyPfKoOo1mzCi/+dGNhE8H/Hnww= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1621 On 14/03/2014 19:47, RS Wood wrote: > Holy cow, you win! For shits and giggles in February I decided I'd > install Windows on a virtual machine so I could play around. I > immediately gave up on Win7, even though I use it at work. WinXP had > heavy requirements (# of GB for a base install) but I found myself > wishing I could track down a Win2000 disk, as it was pretty modest. > > What's the point of a virtual machine running an OS that requires 20GB > for an install? When W2K first came out, people were open mouthed that a full installation of the OS took around a gigabyte of disc space. -- Rod