>> Well, yesterday I had a wonderful time, because I had to downgrade a 
>> perfectly working PC from Windows XP to Windows NT.
> 
> Oh!  I thought you finally phoned the girl! XD

Girls are obsolete technology??

(Surely it is *boys* who will shortly become obsolete...)

>> When XP first appeared, I regarded NT as lean, simple, fast and 
>> stable. XP on the other hand was bloated, overcomplicated, buggy and 
>> slow.
> 
> Same as XP vs Vista! :)

Well... not really, no.

>> So you can only see 8GB right now. But that's rather moot. You see, 
>> you can create a partition as large as you like, but you can only 
>> *format* a partition that is 4 GB or smaller.
> 
> Yes, that sounds fun. ;)

IIRC, at the BIOS level you need to use a different interrupt vector or 
something to access larger disks. The original standard used fewer bits 
or something, IDK. It's been such a long time since this was an issue - 
rather like the whole "conventional RAM vs extended RAM" thing.

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

Post a reply to this message