Microsoft supported ancient legacy software and hardware far longer than any
other vendor. That's part of why actual progress with the OS was held back for
so long - they kept hanging on to old legacy stuff because people kept
complaining that their 12-year-old computer wouldn't run the latest and
greatest. There is an XP virtual machine that can be set up inside Win7 to run
old apps, but at some point, they have to drop the past if they ever hope to
advance.
Also, 2GB is the absolute minimum necessary, so that's what the manufacturers
ship because it's cheaper. I don't remember a 32-bit production machine at work
with anything less than 4Gb.
I still have an original Mac from 1984. I don't, and shouldn't, expect software
from System 1 to still work in my modern OS X El Capitan machine running modern
chips.
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Certified Music Junkie
"It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Berthold Auerbach
> On Mar 27, 2016, at 10:02, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Looking at the system by way of the control panel I saw that SP1 had been
> installed, and the last update was about three years ago, long after Win7 was
> surpassed by Win8, etc. I looked deeply for any mention of an updated native
> PCMCIA driver and found nothing.
>
> I will probably get a USB 3.0 CardBus later on, which should be
> compatible with the native Win7 PCMCIA driver. Maybe. This is not a driving
> issue (no pun intended) as everything works with WinXP, except for an
> occasional webpage.
>
> Forcing earlier software and hardware to be obsolete is a clear violation
> of Victor Papanek's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek) first two
> rules of responsible design, but it does fulfill the third rule as they have
> made generous use of abundant sewage.
>
>>
>> Chris, as I said yesterday, there are several hundred updates from the
>> last couple of years. Microsoft never expected you to download them all
>> at once. I''m not sure that I see a way for you to ever catch up,
>> unless you can download them to an external drive, where you can pick
>> and choose what to install.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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