Re: Built by CERN

Am Sonntag000013, 13.07.2025 um 18:45 schrieb The Starmaker:
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if you bought a computer
when the collider was built
your computer would be junk today.
 How do you maintain a collider
that was first built in 1998?
 Anybody got a piece of gum?
 Why don't you just fix it?
 Fix it?
 YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE WHOLE FUCKING THING TO FIX IT!
  a piece of gum will do for now...
 which version of windows is it running today????
 Win98?
 

Windows 98 is actually a little outdated.
But Linux in a 32 bit version could eventually work.
I usually use Linux Mint in a 19.?? version, which was the last available 32 bit Linux Mint in existence.
Sure, the computers from that era were slow in comparison to computers today. But that doesn't say, that they a now scrap or broken.
They could actually work like fresh from the factory.
Only that would be slow in comparison to modern computers.
TH