Re: Older Machine

In news:A3C4A9A7-8D23-4876-82D2-42B2DEB71E34@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Bryan Schuman <Bryan Schuman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:

> Not completely true... I easliy got XP installed on an OLD
> 120MHz 6x86
> machine with 32 megs of memory, and win XP runs much faster and
> cleaner than 98SE ever did, and it really shows on that system.
> It's
> mainly due to the lack of DOS overhead that 98SE has.
>
> It was a very interesting experience :)


I don't like to claim someone isn't being truthful, but I have a
lot of trouble believing that.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup


> "Ken Blake" wrote:
>
>> In news:dsvNd.1227$Bp2.851@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>> enquirer <enquirer.com@xxxxxxxxxx> typed:
>>
>>> I have a PII 233mhz MMX, 512k cache 32 MB Ram and 4.8GB Hard
>>> Drive. It currently has Win95 installed, but I would like to
>>> install a newer
>>> Win version. I don't want to run in "crippled" mode so what
>>> would be
>>> the best compromise (98,ME,XP)?
>>
>>
>> XP is not an option. Microsoft's minimum RAM requirement for
>> XP
>> is 64MB, but that isn't even close to what's required for
>> decent
>> performance. How much RAM you need depends on what apps you
>> run,
>> but I wouldn't recommend that anyone run XP without at least
>> 256MB.
>>
>> Even if you were to upgrade to 256MB, your processor is at the
>> very bottom of those that will run XP. You are not likely to
>> be
>> happy with its performance.
>>
>> I would run Windows 98.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup


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