[CTS] Re: Here is something for John to beat. This guy has 39 OS's on one PC.

  • From: "Eric C. Vogel" <ECVogel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 15:25:38 -0400

His Mom said it was a waste of time. She changed her mind since he was on
TechTv's The Screen Savers. He said he doesn't use all of them and just
wanted to see if it could be done. NT 4 was so bad to work with he put it on
it's own partition.
Thank you,
Eric Vogel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxx>
To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: [CTS] Re: Here is something for John to beat. This guy has 39 OS's
on one PC.


>
> But why? You can only use ONE at at a time. Guess he did it so he can say
> that he does. I've had up to 11 on one but it sucked to do anything on.
And
> what the heck is SkyOS?
>
> Running multiple versions of old pre-95 Windows isn't a trick either, it's
> actually a waste of HD space in my opinion. Pre-3x is mostly non-GUI menu
> based Windows anyway.
>
> Guess it's his machine, he can do what he wants huh? I have most of the OS
> installations that he has but I doubt I'm going to commit a machine to all
> of them. Most of the old DOS stuff gets weird on a machine with any decent
> speed too, as do many old programs that were compiled in the 8088/8086 and
> 80286 eras.
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -> [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eric C.
Vogel
> -> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:56 AM
> -> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -> Subject: [CTS] Here is something for John to beat. This guy has 39 OS's
> -> on one PC.
> ->
> ->
> -> http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answerstips/jump/0,24331,33994
> -> 38,00.html
> ->
> -> Took him a long time to get them in the correct order. I think
> -> it took 6 drives and he had to find that many OS's.
> -> Thank you,
> -> Eric Vogel
>
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