Incremental Save Not Working

#11

<panzerboy (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

If your running on basically a desktop PC, I guess incrementals don't do
much for you.
And you're more likely to need to replace the system (anyone had a PC
last more than 6 years?)
On Big Iron, with files approaching 80GB, it was incremental or
nothing.

regards,
Jeremy Thomson
A full 6 years would be fantastic good luck. Although now that I think about it,

the 586, 486, 386 computers _did_ last pretty well if you replaced the cmos
bios battery & power supply & cpu fan every X years...
And I'm soon going to discard my perfectly working Amiga 1000 game computer,
vintage 1985 -- but it has a cpu clock speed of under 1 megahertz...
I'm really tired of seeing P2/P3/P4 motherboards die young with obvious fluid
leakage from the major electrolytic capacitors....

#12

Hi Frank
Your Amiga could be worth a bomb, they are very sought after in the movie
editing arena. Sorry I cannot remember the model most popular. PC's that
last more than 6 years - yup. The one I am writing this on is 9 and we gave
away its brothers and sisters because we had to upgrade for Windows. Before
anyone mentions Linux I do not know where anyone gets the idea that it works
on old machines because the first thing it does is try to grab gigabytes of
hard disk which is just not available on old machines. If anyone knows how
I have a nice Acer P3 server that I am willing to test the load on although
I have a basic antipathy to anything with x (has been!) in the name.
Peter McMurray
"Frank Winans" <fwinans (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

Quote:

panzerboy (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

If your running on basically a desktop PC, I guess incrementals don't do
much for you.
And you're more likely to need to replace the system (anyone had a PC
last more than 6 years?)
On Big Iron, with files approaching 80GB, it was incremental or
nothing.

regards,
Jeremy Thomson
A full 6 years would be fantastic good luck. Although now that I think
about it,
the 586, 486, 386 computers _did_ last pretty well if you replaced the
cmos
bios battery & power supply & cpu fan every X years...
And I'm soon going to discard my perfectly working Amiga 1000 game
computer,
vintage 1985 -- but it has a cpu clock speed of under 1 megahertz...
I'm really tired of seeing P2/P3/P4 motherboards die young with obvious
fluid
leakage from the major electrolytic capacitors....

#13

"Excalibur" wrote

Quote:

Hi Frank
Your Amiga could be worth a bomb, they are very sought after in the movie
editing arena. Sorry I cannot remember the model most popular. PC's that
last more than 6 years - yup. The one I am writing this on is 9 and we gave
away its brothers and sisters because we had to upgrade for Windows. Before
anyone mentions Linux I do not know where anyone gets the idea that it works
on old machines because the first thing it does is try to grab gigabytes of
hard disk which is just not available on old machines. If anyone knows how
I have a nice Acer P3 server that I am willing to test the load on although
I have a basic antipathy to anything with x (has been!) in the name.
Peter McMurray
"Frank Winans" wrote
A full 6 years would be fantastic good luck. Although now that I think
about it,
the 586, 486, 386 computers _did_ last pretty well if you replaced the
cmos
bios battery & power supply & cpu fan every X years...
And I'm soon going to discard my perfectly working Amiga 1000 game
computer,
vintage 1985 -- but it has a cpu clock speed of under 1 megahertz...
No, this is the original model 1000 -- no hard disk, not much RAM.

You're thinking of the Model 2000 -- later operating system, hard disk,
lotsa ram, and 3rd party killer app called 'video toaster' available.

Congrats on your long-lived PC! As to what to do with old boxes, why put
old redhat 6 linux on 'em. Yes, the security stinks by today's standards, and
you've got that nasty max 2.1 gigabyte per file size limit, but _tiny_ footprint.
Is good enough for some humble apps on an isolated home LAN. But I agree
modern linux sure eats up the disk space -- and cpu and ram, if you run X.
I've actually still got fond memories of redhat 9, for D3/linux situations...

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