I don't get it...

Are you trying to

- Troll or start a flame war?
- Promote IEEE's Project Phoenix?
- Promote antiX Linux?
- Be "cool" in front of the LUGgies by bashing Microsoft?

Extremely limited success in all cases I'm afraid.

All your opinions are built on the base of an old laptop with 256 MB
of RAM and a 500 MHz processor. That's what, circa 1998-99?

A better analogy for your situation would be trying to put the engine
(Windows 7) of a 2009 Lincoln Towncar (PC Hardware) into a 1998
Lincoln Towncar. It's still a Lincoln automobile (x86 Compatible PC)
but the 2010 engine (Windows 7) isn't going to work with the drive
train and electronics (the PC hardware) of the 1998 Lincoln that was
designed around the 1998 engine (Windows 98).

The facts of the Lincoln analogy might not work out, I'm not going to
look up when Ford actually retooled the production lines, but the auto
industry seems to go with a 10 year ROI on retooling production lines
so it seems quite likely that a 11 year span between models is a safe
bet. And if not there should be no problem finding a make and model
that of auto that had it's production line retooled between 1998 and
2009. :-)

Have fun Mr. Embedded Engineer. You live in a world that is vastly
different and resource restricted from the mainstream.

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Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us
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