Dual-Booters vs Single-Booters

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think dualbooting is generally stupid. I have one OS per machine, just have lots of machines.

/me imagines a PC with an entire PC on a PCI card, with a VGA out and PS/2 mouse/keyboard (or a pair of USB ports) in, in each PCI slot on the mobo, for a combined total of up to 7 PCs per case. Now *that* might be an interesting setup. (Assume a low-power Athlon XP or AMD64 chip on each card, with one 512MB DDR DIMM, let's say. The primary "master" PC would be responsible for providing outside network/disk services to the "slave" PC cards. Could be useful for software-testing purposes, or distributed-computing tasks.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think dualbooting is generally stupid. I have one OS per machine, just have lots of machines.

/me imagines a PC with an entire PC on a PCI card, with a VGA out and PS/2 mouse/keyboard (or a pair of USB ports) in, in each PCI slot on the mobo, for a combined total of up to 7 PCs per case. Now *that* might be an interesting setup. (Assume a low-power Athlon XP or AMD64 chip on each card, with one 512MB DDR DIMM, let's say. The primary "master" PC would be responsible for providing outside network/disk services to the "slave" PC cards. Could be useful for software-testing purposes, or distributed-computing tasks.

Sounds like something perfect for what DragonflyBSD plans on being. Or something similar to a piece of hardware made by SUN.

 

[D1gger]

I tri-boot. Win/XP Pro, Win/XP x64, Fedora Core 3 x64

 

[h2]

Web developer, have to test stuff on different stuff:
Main box:
Windows 98 I
Windows 2000 SP 4
Windows 2000 vanilla
Windows XP SP 2
A non working install of kanotix

Second box:
Yoper
Kanotix [that's what I really use, other stuff is just for testing]
Beatrix

Laptop:
Beatrix 2005.1 [it's an old laptop, beatrix works well on slower older hardware]

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: D1gger
I tri-boot. Win/XP Pro, Win/XP x64, Fedora Core 3 x64

:brokenheart: The brainwashing has begun. Terminology has been in place for more than a year, and marketing department comes along and overwrites it.

Excuse me while I go hit my head on the wall for a few minutes.

(Read the rest of this thread if you don't understand what I'm talking about.)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: bersl2

Originally posted by: D1gger
I tri-boot. Win/XP Pro, Win/XP x64, Fedora Core 3 x64

:brokenheart: The brainwashing has begun. Terminology has been in place for more than a year, and marketing department comes along and overwrites it.

Excuse me while I go hit my head on the wall for a few minutes.

(Read the rest of this thread if you don't understand what I'm talking about.)

The GNU people call it x86_64 (or x86-64 depending on where you look), AMD calls it amd64, *BSD calls it AMD64, Mandrake/RedHat call it x86-64, Microsoft calls it x64, Intel calls it EMT64(?).

 

[bersl2]

Right. It's not that hard to understand in a very clear context such as this. I did establish that the "x sixty-four" moniker gives me the creeps, and when you combine this with a simple breach of context, well...

Pet peeves are a spice of life, ain't they?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: bersl2
Right. It's not that hard to understand in a very clear context such as this. I did establish that the "x sixty-four" moniker gives me the creeps, and when you combine this with a simple breach of context, well...

Pet peeves are a spice of life, ain't they?

I refuse to refer to it as anything but amd64.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Kludge64 perhaps?