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Re: What OS to use

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From: Joshua SS Miller
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00
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I might be willing to go for that!  Post what kind of mem you need,  hmm
Does PB use its own mem sticks......

beer for computer parts..........what a wonderful country we live in : )
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Adam Carheden wrote:

> Though it's totally unlike me to be an NT advocate, if we're being
> realistic it will be at least a few more years before we can kill M$
> completely, and as a CS student, you'll be getting plenty of UNIX
> experience in class, so, keeping in mind the goal of getting experience
> with different OS's, I'd have to vote for NT, though, as Dwyer pointed
> out, you'd better have patience to run it with 16mb ram.  (Phew, let me
> send /that/ one to my english prof. ;)
>
> What kind of memory does you comp take?  If it's old enough to take
> SIMMs instead of DIMMs, you could probably put some more in there for
> $30-$40.  Check out Hayse computers on Shields & Elizabeth or Discount
> Used Computers in Denver.  Or just post on csu.general and offer to
> trade a Guinness for some used stuff!
> --
> Adam Carheden
> carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU
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