Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: How to tell if you're running WinXP Date: 17 Mar 2014 10:35:43 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net +RNEvwKItmhZKF/gi+RiagxtAeTX6wDUOZRxZhrw1i8CbbPAk5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:5kbHfS6WEc97iYMuy0kVhem6qu4= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1709 On 2014-03-16, Paul Sture wrote: > On 2014-03-14, polygonum wrote: >> 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. > > My first NT4 system in 1997 came with a 2GB disk. I wondered how I would > fill it, yet towards the end of a year I was getting close. Parkinsons law applies. When you have more disk, you buy a GoPro and start using loss-less audio & buying "high resolution" music. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 3rd day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 A non-empty Hausdorff topological space is a continuous image of the unit interval if and only if it is a compact, connected, locally connected second-countable space.