f/fgeorge wrote:

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:40:20 GMT, "Eric" <nospam@no.nospam.not> wrote:

[...]

My main problems with Boinc on them are all "known issues" with older PC's
and Win98:

- Boinc causes explorer.exe (shell) to hang about once every week or two.
Explorer will automatically restart, but all the network protocols get
fungled afterwards requiring a physical reboot to get them talking again.

[...]

I have one machine running Classic under win98 and it needs a hard
boot about every 30 days. BUT that about conincides with the known
issue Windows 98 running out of resources in 34 days max too.

[...]

OMG!!! I remember that old nightmare of the fixed size resource tables getting full! A few times, I had to very gently coax an old Win95C system to run for three months to complete a simulation. It was a case of very strict DO NOT CLOSE OR OPEN *ANY* WINDOWS! (And this is on "Windows" of course!)

All good old fun stuff.


I just have to wonder why anyone would voluntarily continue to try coaxing such old stuff to continue working as a 'server'. Or why people accept MS-Viruses as 'normal'...


Regards,
Martin