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Interesting...XP on OLD system...

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My good friend and old soccer coach calls me over to help fix his old computer. It was given to him for free and basically needed a format...but they had no OS disk so I let them borrow my XP and told them they had 30 days to buy it wherever..

He was using a 266 Mhz Acer Aptiva!!! Thing was like 10 years old at least...I was going to give them my old P4 1.4 Ghz but he would have had to get a video card and other stuff, and walmart will rip him off.

So I figure, ah, I got the disc, why not?

XP formatted and loaded FINE. I think what helped was someone put 128 SDRAM on it, which I think is a lot for that old of a machine...I didn't know XP could fit on that system either. Luckily he has low standards and only uses computer to check fantasy football stats and download a little music.
 
Minimum requirements for Windows XP are 233 Mhz proc, 64 megs of RAM, and 1.5 GB disc space. Sure it won't run all that great, but that's the stuff listed on the box.
 
I saw a post not so long about where someone said they had run it on a system that basically was the minimum requirements. It took it an eternity to do anything, but it technically worked as a server once it finally loaded up apparently. I'll bet swapping was horrible though. Anyway, yes, it definitely helped you that you put in that much memory.

Now, if you intend to put that system to use, for gaming I'd STRONGLY recommend Windows 98 SE (preferably with 98Lite, but that's commercial, so I don't blame you if you don't want to waste money on it.) If it's for serving, then linux will pitifully outrun windows xp even with the default settings to most distros (which are rather bloated for such a system.) (Nothing against XP, just it was NOT made for an older system. Er, well, at least I mean I don't hold THIS against XP. I still have my complaints...)
 
Turn off all the eye candy and it wouldn't run too bad for internet/office stuff. Its been my experience that on older machines the greatest slowdown is a tiny video card trying to generate all the graphical goodness that is XP. Classic desktop, turn off all shadowing/shading, if its onboard video go into the BIOS and give it at least 8mb, etc. I was putting Win2k on P133/128MB machines because my company couldn't afford hardware upgrades but we had to normalize all machines on win2k. They did what people needed them to do and the stability/manageability easily made up for the speed.
 
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