[rescue] Windows 2000 on oooold PC hardware

[George Adkins]

On Monday 24 June 2002 08:09 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 20:04, Robert Novak wrote:
> > I could probably run Win2k on a 486/66. Haven't tried, but I might if I
> > get bored after vacation. It SMOKES on a Pentium 150 or 233 or P2-233.
>
> I will confirm, Windows 2000 on a Pentium 100 works pretty well (for
> Windows 2000 anyway) if you upgrade the RAM to 64M.  Even MS Office 2000
> on the same box is surprisingly responsive.
>
> I dunno if I have any 486's left to play with, and I dare not try it on
> the 386's that are here.  But I have this ancient HP server with a
> Pentium 60 in it and a 6GB RAID...

Surprising, as the installation requirements say P133 (not that that means 
anything, I actually got 98 to install on a '386 laptop w/ 6 Megs of RAM 
once.  it took a week to boot, but it came up.. eventually)
I've installed Win2000 on Dual PPro200 boxen for $WORKPLACE and with 64 megs 
of RAM it doesn't run too terribly bad.  a little better with 128Megs..

George