-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> >>>> Now I have an AMD Athlon 3800+ with 1 GB ram, run Debian Etch amd64 with >>>> the nVidia driver in icewm. >>>> >>>> I have the dos 6.3 set of 5 floppies and the Windows 3.11 set of 6 >>>> floppies. I also have the Harpoon for windows CD. >>>> >>>> The question is what app to run to make it work. The choices seem to be >>>> >>>> dosbox >>>> >>>> qemu >>>> >>>> bochs >>>> >>> wine started its life as a windows 3.11 emulator (or non-emulatr, >>> whatever). >>> >> Not in amd64. >> > At this point, I still think it's too early to run a 64-bit environment > unless you actually have programs that require 64-bit support. Too much > stuff still only supports a 32-bit environment. You're shooting > yourself in the foot if you're running 64-bit on a desktop with no > explicit need. > I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit userlands are fine. The exception is if you have to use binary blobs, and even then kludgy wrappers do exist.
I run a 64 bit userland on a PPC machine (this _IS_ a bad idea, but I need the speed..) @Doug, I do love old machines, let us know how you go. I have some disks that you're welcome to, perhaps we can work something out with shipping? If you have some old kit lying around, perhaps we could trade? Regards Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \ .''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : / [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 \ `. `' / [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ `- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj1ZWcACgkQLeTfO4yBSAcYmwCfd70fI6sHhwh6F2BHkHC/LPIJ 08IAn2ROuUclqjBU7iV+w7jl//ASzIkU =b9HI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
