Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed

[Mike McCarty]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 02:24, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> 
>>I was actually intending to investigate the context
>>switching aspects of XP vs Linux. Installing Cygwin
>>seems a little bit high overhead (in disc space, etc.)
>>to me. I may have still installed a MinGW on my XP
>>partition. That might be a way...
> 
> 
> If you calculate that space requirement in terms of
> cost at current disk prices it probably wouldn't
> sound that bad.

Oh, it's just the trouble of doing the install, then
doing the uninstall, and the trouble of trying to make
sure it was all gone. If I actually wanted to *use* it,
it wouldn't be bad. But I don't want to drag a whole
UNIX environment into my Windows environment, any more
than I want to drag a whole Windows environment into
my Linux environment.

And right now *any* actual cost sounds bad to a
laid-off engineer.

Mike
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