[rescue] Windows 2000 on oooold PC hardware

[Michael Free]

My first windows machine was a cacheless (faulted, and disabled) 386DX40
with 8 megs of ram running Windows 95... as DOS boxen go, it was pretty
snappy, useable in under a minute of cold boot.

Too bad I was using a scrap/refuse 120 meg conner IDE hard drive and a color
monitor with 1 good color amplifier..."red".... means pink....

Mike Free

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Adkins" <george at webbastard.org>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Windows 2000 on oooold PC hardware


> 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
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