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From: "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 01:28:39 +1000
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"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote in message
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> On 20/05/2025 15:48, Paul Edwards wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > My main development machine/environment is Windows 2000
> Would everybody please close their eyes and bow their heads?

It's also capable of running Visual Studio 2005, which means
I can target x64 processors, even though I can't run the
executables themselves. Although I will normally use cc64
as my x64 compiler, which I can also run as a 32-bit program.
I expect to investigate mm64 one day, but still have other
priorities.

I don't often need to run x64 executables, but when I do, I
copy them to my Windows 10 system, that Windows 2000
is running under.

And here are my size constraints:

2025-05-14  06:15 AM    20,401,095,168 win2000.vhd
2025-05-14  06:15 AM    19,327,353,344 pauldata.vhd

I think my Pinebook Pro was 64 GB storage.

If I give up Visual Studio 2005, I can reduce the win2k
down to about 4 GB I think, meaning I can cope with
a 32 GB storage machine.

Note that the VHD can be mounted on Windows 10
natively, but I don't currently need to do that. I instead
have a shared folder c:\w2kshare on my Windows 10
system, and something from Virtualbox installed on
the w2k system so that I have a Z drive.

I'm officially "apocalypse-ready". The Zhaoxin processor
will make me Last Man Standing if I backed the wrong
horse.

BFN. Paul.