Re: How To Update From XP To 10 or 11?

On 28/06/2024 05:05, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 22:03:00 +0000, "p-0 0-h the cat (coder)
> <[email protected]>" wrote:
> 
>> TBH, I prefer to run stuff that old on the original hardware for lots of
>> reasons but that's a debate for another time. I look forward to your
>> reply to occam as I am genuinely intrigued about what programs from that
>> era are so important to you that you recommend foregoing Microsoft's
>> latest and greatest. To me it's simple. It will soon be their only
>> supported OS and security updates are my utmost priority. "Avoid Windows
>> 11" you say. Is that "at all costs"? Sounds a bit reckless to me in
>> exchange for a bit of nostalgia you could indulge in many other ways. No?
> 
> Yes, I do have nostalgia for research data  I have collected over the
> last 30 years, still keep adding to, and still want to access every
> day.
> 
> Not all of us use computers just to play silly games with.

Yeah, I don't know why people want to play games. Writing them is a 
blast though and very challenging. Databases however are not my thing, 
but each to their own. I wouldn't call them silly mind, the only way I 
can describe my feelings about them is akin to how I imagine it feels to 
have an alien sucking your life force out of you.

I am still struggling with this 8 bit thing though. The applications you 
mention seem to run on DOS. Wasn't that 16 bit. I didn't really play 
with PCs back then much. I mean 8 bit processors only directly address 
64k although you can page in blocks of memory but even so the amount of 
data you seem to suggest you have collected would indicate a bit of a 
struggle going on so how does that all work.


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