Sorry: Late reply, due to over a week spent netless. (Laying in firewood - winter is coming.) On 06.03.15 11:35, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Yeah, I'd been wondering about that too.. The last 32 bit mainstream Intel CPUs were the Pentium 4 range, from around 2004-2006, which is a ridiculously long time ago in computing terms. But then, Erik did mention the hard drives were 32 GB, which would date from even earlier than then. So he's operating on 10+ year old hardware?
The drives: yes. The mobo turned up its toes a couple of years ago, so I whipped in another - but the drives are still bigger than I need, and still spinning. (Everything worth backing up fits on an 8 GB USB stick.)
I'm actually surprised there's enough memory in the machine to run a modern desktop environment and web browser. A 2004 era machine probably only has between 0.1 and 0.5 GB of RAM. I think?
It's now a bit newer (VIA C7), and has a whole 1 GB, so no drama there. Erik -- Australia ranks 44th for average connection speed, according to The State of the Internet Report from cloud service provider Akamai. - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-09/remote-rural-australians-to-wait-anoth...