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[AdvMutant]

Hey all.
I'm planning to develop OSes. Even after discovering how hard it might be, I'm not going to give up until I have something decent. I haven't started with ASM yet because of my grades at school - everything but math was excellent, but my parents don't care. The are now sure that I'm not doing homework and that I can do better etc etc. -_-'
That's why I didn't have mood the last two days, I only program with good mood. Whatever, forget it for now.

I wanted to buy myself an external HDD so I checked all the stores near me. The smallest they have is 320GB. God, it's simply a waste of cash for me. Too much space. So I checked a second-hand website and came up with something awesome - two cheap as hell laptops!

One laptop is for 15$. It's a 14" model with an original Windows 98 CD. It has a working CD and floppy drive, and a battery that lasts for 1 hour. Those were the things he specified, the problems are that a charger isn't included and the screen doesn't work. He wrote that I can use an external screen, so it's not so bad.

Another is for 55$, "Dell Latitude CPX Pentium 3". He doesn't write anything, but it seems good.

So... I planned to get myself an external HDD, but with those prices I can get it with the exact size I wanted, plus some misc parts to have fun with. On the other side I can get one, repair it, and use it as a second PC for testing my OSes. I think the second one is a better deal assuming that it's fully functional. I'll have to contact him for more info.

What do you guys think, which once is better for me if I want to repair and use it?

[John]

Use qemu

[AdvMutant]

Use what?

[DEViANT]

google://qemu

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QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.

When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance.

When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.

[AdvMutant]

Yeah I know how to google, it's just I didn't have time. lol what a fail :P