Do you use an x86 based machine?

[sdesros]

My main PC was an Athlon700 which I experimented with and had QNX + AmigaXL and Win98.  It died shortly after receiving my Peg and has been mostly replaced.

Other X86 machines:
I've got an IBM Thinkpad (bottom of the line when I bought it, added some ram.)  I use it mostly as an MP3 player, and for WinUAE.

I've got a P133 system that I use as my scanning, and CD Burning station.  

That way I can continue pounding on my other systems happily while burning CD's.

[Nitro]

Hyrican laptop with Celeron 1.7. With WinXP for work and pretty much everything.

Big Tower, Athlon 1 GB. WinXP mostly for Video since that's where my DVD burner is. Games, and programming in Dark Basic.  Red Hat Linux for games.

Small Tower, The WhatChaMa Callit K62 550, has Triple boot WinXp, BeOS 5, and Amithlon. mostly for games.

[Siggy]

I just want to know who on this site owns and uses an x86 based machine

Yep, I have a high end machine for my work (video editing) running XP, and thats all it's used for.

I have another running Linux that I do everything else on..  My wife has one that dual boots Linux/Win98 for her work (screenwriting), although it spends much more time in the former OS than the later.

and finally 'Old Clunker', an old decrepid and battered box of spare parts that dual boots linux and amithlon.  Mainly used for tinkering with OS' and other things that have a high chance of screwing up.

Siggy.

[ottomobiehl]

AMD 1700 w/ W2k for web surfing, making me movies, and some programming (I'm learning again.)  Do most of my gaming on consoles unless it is Civ III or something along those lines.

 I get my Amiga fix with 2 A2000's (retro gaming, programming, etc)  plus I tend  to dink around with my C=64 alot lately.  Probably getting ready for the c1 when it is released.
 :-)

Haven't decided if I'm going to get an A1 or a Pegasos yet.  Waiting for AOS4 to be released to compare.

[csirac_]

2100XP, KT400 chipset, 512MiB, Radeon 9000, etc.

Has never, ever booted MS Windows - Debian GNU/Linux 100%. I use EAGLE for electronics CAD, Matlab 5, OpenOffice, Mozilla, a bit of OpenMosix experimentation, HC12 development, a bit C programming with Anjuta. I also have a copy of the AROS cvs but haven't done anything useful with it - have a couple of other projects with slightly higher priority (and what seems to be the toughest semester of my MEE degree). This machine is on 24/7 serving a number of useless, seldom used services, including acting as a partial debian mirror, proxying for 32 PCs running a folding@home client, ftp, SMB master browser, ssh shells, a web portal, X, etc.

I find people don't mind using Linux but hate being their own sysadmin. For a while I had a few friends using remote X sessions to do their unix & C assignments in even though they had Redhat on their own PCs..

- Paul

[Jose]

I have Linux Debian and Win98 on an Athlon 600. Use it for internet, music recording, jukebox, and learn some programing at times but that is maily made on my A1200 040/40mhz.

[jeffimix]

Pentium4 1.4GHZ 128MBytes RAM Sony Vaio for everyday use. I have a Pentium 167MHz 32 MBytes RAM with DOS on it. I also have a couple old Pentium motherboards and a 486 Motherboard that are not being used at all.  I have an out of service (not for too long I hope.... :| ) Amiga 2000, and a Palm Zire.  

Someday I hope to learn how to program but everytime I try to download something to screw around with I get horribly confused, I tried downloading stuff to code for my Palm, but I decided to make a list of what I needed first GCC with special err parts the SDK stuff... something about Cygwin??? and some other bits too apparently. Isn't there some single file/zip program with which I could all the coding?, Somewhere?

[Jope]

Hmm, what I have at home:

* Dell Latitude C640 (P4-m 1800MHz), main machine used for about everything. WinXP
* Pegasos April2, used almost as much as the C640. MorphOS 1.4 and Debian
* beside the TV is a P3/500 that's used for playing media and DVDs. This one used to be my Amithlon box, but since that emulator went and died, I lost interest. Win2k
* Dell Latitude XPi P90, used for flashing and mucking around with DCT-3 nokias. Win98SE and Debian
* under the bed is a Screenless Dell Latitude CP M233, a wlan bridge to be .. haven't decided on XP or Linux yet.

At the moment my Real Amigas are hooked up at a basement me and a few friends rent out:

* A4000/2MB/16MB, CV64/4MB, Scandoubler, CSMK2/060/50MHz/64MB/SCSI, AriadneII, Delfina
* A2000/1MB, CV64/3D/2MB, FlickerFixer, B2060/50MHz/64MB, GG2+ with an NE2000 net card

Nice machines, but their age is showing.. Not very stable any more, no matter what I do. :-(

Added to that there's a ####load of CBM 8-bitters, you can see a snapshot of the collection at it's peak at http://jope.ath.cx:2300/cbm.html (let's see how that poor HP 715/100 handles all the traffic ;-)

Now when you start gaping and aweing at the amount of Windows boxen I run, I'll just say: Windows works for me on the desktop. For servers I almost always go for Linux and at work I administer a huge load of Solaris and HP-UX machines.

Unix experience since '96 (makes me a bit of a n00b to Unix, eh?-) has shown me that it's not nice for my desktop, but great for just about any internet server application you can think of.

[Wolfe]

Most of you have been assimilated by Billy & the M$ Borg.  Repent and save your computer soul !  :lol:

The curse of the scurge Winblows has infected our universe - fight for freedom . . . . .  :roflmao:

[vortexau]

I have THREE Amigas AC-wired, including THIS A2000/060 64Mb with 4 SCSI HDDs. 1 CBM 8-Bit AC-wired, and 1 CBM 8-Bit un-wired. That's my Commodore-based-background.

1 cat-blocking Unisys 486 under a desk-drawer from which I scavenged one of those SCSI drives, and cut a 5¼"-to-3½" addaptor section of case.

1 HP NetServer (486) that I may use to make a power-Coldfire-A3000-SCSI-wonderbox, use as a Linux-Server, or just use as furniture!

1 empty 24" high ATX Tower presently unused.

 ° I have to confess that, in my computer-room, there is a AMD K6 with two CD Drives, 1 HDD containing WindowsME, and 1 (presently) unconnected HDD containing a Linux distro that I installed. My brother-in-law has set this up as a Win-box to down-load files from the USB-Port of my wife's Kodak Digital. My brother-in-law demonstrated to his sister how troublesome a K6-WinME-with-KodakSoftware can be. I held my tongue as, I don't yet have a Thylasine, and I'm STILL WAITING (Doug? Oh Doug?) for my Feb5 2002 Earlybird A1G4!

Dang! I need USB and Turboprint!!

[Hammer]

iamaboringperson wrote:
I just want to know who on this site owns and uses an x86 based machine(or IBM-PC, call it what you like), especially running an operating system other than AROS, AmigaOS, or - if you found a way to do it - MorphOS.
Do you use an OS such as Linux, *BSD, MS-Windows, and BeOS on it?
If so, what for, and how often?

Me:
I use MS-Windows for games, and Linux for most of my work, including webpage design.
I also occasionally use net/386/freeBSD and play around with AROS

Main machine: AMD K6-II 400

I probably use this more than my A 4000 T

:-)

The idea for this thread has come from here:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3661 ;-)

System details(main machine):

+ ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (nForce II class chipset)
+ CPU: Athlon XP 2600+ (@~2.08Ghz**) with 333Mhz FSB variant  (**not o/c at this time).
+ RAM: Dual channel mode PC2700 512Mb DDR SDRAM, running at 333Mhz.
+ OS 1 : Windows XP Professional with SP1
+ DirectX: 9.0a
+ GPU: Geforce 4 TI VIVO
+ Audio: NVIDIA APU
+ NIC: nVidia NIC & 3Com NIC
+ Speakers: 5.1 Surround Speaker System
+ HD1: 80Gb UDMA133 Seagate 7200 rpm IDE
+ HD2: 40Gb UDMA133 Seagate 7200 rpm IDE
+ HD3: 20Gb UDMA33 Seagate 5200 rpm IDE
+ CD1: UDMA LG DVD/CD-RW
+ CD2: UDMA Liteon DVD-ROM
+ Other: 350 Watt power supply

It’s probable that DDR SDRAM (up to 1Gb) and GPU will be upgraded in the near future (within this month)…

400Mhz FSB overclocking works like a charm (with appropriate 400Mhz DDR SDRAM, This motherboard enables CPU multipliers to be set via BIOS without mucking with Athlon’s L bridges).

I do have access and own other Athlon-Tbird/AthlonXP/PentiumII/III/IV class machines for development/testing work. Win2K3 relegated for development work at this time. I mainly develop application in the area of MIS (Managed Information System).

Currently evaluating the migration to IA-32/X86-32/AMD32 Linux (several distros) and FreeBSD. Also evaluating MS dotNET (all business related). Win32/Direct8.x based games and AmigaOS/AROS is for leisure related activities…

PS Waiting for Eyetech’s A500/1200 target PowerPC based solution… USD $299 Pegy (whatever number) is tempting. IF USD $299 Pegy is bundled with AmigaOS 4.0(licensed, not MOL like situation); this factor will push it to beyond tempting…

[Dr_Righteous]

My main PC started it's life as a Zenith Data Systems 8088/8MHz... Over a span of years it's been upgraded piece by piece to a K6-2/400MHz. Obviously no parts remain from the original system, which was eventually reassembled and sold.

Other parts from the system have been recombined into systems themselves and upgraded here and there with spare parts. Some of my parts have been given to my mom for her li'l box.

I have a Micron Transport XPe laptop (Inhell 150MHz MMX, Win2k Pro, trying to find a linux distro I like for it) I use quite a bit.

I also have a Mac 7300/180 (with a 604e/233MHz upgrade) collecting dust.

And of course my Miggys... A4000D, A2000HD, two A1200 boards in the process of being repaired to build something with, and a friends A500 which he will probably never get back :-D

My operating system usage varies depending on what I'm doing at the time... I've used everything from DOS 1.1 up to Win2k... MANY distributions of Linux... BeOS 4 & 5... Various QNX versions... Even Slowaris, er, Solaris. I'd love to use AROS, but I'll wait till the native version becomes usable before attempting it again.

Needless to say, I'm fond of experimenting with my systems! :-D

[tony23]

My PC machine  is an IBM netvista PIII ,XP Pro at 668MHz 198 Mb ram ,64Mb ATI Radeon 7500 graphics card and a WinTvGo card that I run my VideoToaster into to create vids.The IBM is also networked to the Toaster with Amiga Explorer and to another PC over ethernet  160MHz P1 win98. I put the IBM together from parts , started with just the black tower and  bare motherboard and then scrounged the rest of the parts for cheap.Total cost under 500 Canadian including 1 40Gb Hd +80Gb, black 17" IBM monitor KB and scroll point mouse and I didn't have to pay for it all at once.It runs perfect now but it's taken a while to get everything just right.Wishing for two X-surf ethernet cards to get my other Amiga's networked. :-)

[bhoggett]

I only use x86 systems these days.

Most of my work is done in Windows (XP), but I try and migrate as much as possible to Linux (Mandrake), which I find much more interesting as an OS.

I also have BeOS and QNX installed, but to be honest they're only there for experimentation, since neither has the software base to satisfy my needs on a daily basis.

Amithlon also has a place on my system, but nowadays I hardly ever use it for anything except Tales of Tamar.

My main system is showing its age a bit, being a 1.4 GHz Athlon with 512 MB RAM and a GeForce2 GTS graphics card.

I still have my expanded A1200 and A4000 systems, but they never get powered up any more. It must be over 3 months since the last time either got switched on at all, and then it was most likely for a few minutes only.

I have no plans to buy a PPC based system in the foreseable future.

[takemehomegrandma]

I have a monster PC (if I may say it myself ;-)), it's a home built system based on Abit NF7-S 2.0 dual channel DDR motherboard (the first mobo to be Dolby certified?) with an Athlon 2800+ (Barton core), 2x Corsair Low Latency 256Mb DDR PC2700 CAS2 333MHz with Heatsink, an ASUS V9950TD GeForce FX5900 graphics card with 128Mb DDR, an Adaptec UW SCSI 160 controller card, 5x 18GB IBM Ultrastar SCSI 10Krpm U160 harddrives, one UltraPlex SCSI CD-ROM, one PlexWriter SCSI CD/RW (only 12x unfortunately). It's all built in a noise-reduced silver coloured Chieftech Full Tower, with some cool nobs with blue backlights to controll the fans, and an Abit Media-XP 5.25" Front Panel.

It's all very fast, so fast that not even the seriously bloated WindowsXP pro feels sluggish. On that computer I also run the latest version of Amiga Forever, but I must say *that* feels very sluggish compared to my 600MHz Pegasos (I have not run any CPU benchmarks however, but the *sluggish feeling* makes me rule out UAE Amiga Emulation as a serious alternative).

[XIII]

My main machine is a PIII@866 which runs XP. This one's up and running 24/7.
2 Compaq Armada (PIII@450) laptops, one running Redhat (Shrike) and one running SuSE 8.2 (testserver for webdevelopment). In the not so distant future I intend to move the XP machine to SuSE as well, not right now because I'd miss a few applications for which there are no Linux alternatives.