On 6 Jan 02 at 4:23, the_juggernaut@juno.com wrote:
The only upgrade that I'm considering is to change the motherboard on my Win98 box from an aging PII-450 to a P4-1.5/6Gighz with 1+ Gig of Ram and upgrade the ATX power supply to 400 Watts. I suspect that thusly upgraded there will be no present reason to move from Win98 to XP-Kludge.....
Pardon my ignorance, but does one need newer OSs for newer processors? Could it be possible to run a Pentium 4 with Win 3.1?
Certainly, or even plain old DOS. Of course, neither one would be able to see any more than 2-8GB of the (probably much larger) hard drive. Wouldn't be able to see or use the vast majority of installed memory (considering the 1+GB figure for memory). No USB support. Does DOS support bidirectional printer ports? If not, many newer printers won't work. Of course, many new printers don't have DOS support unless running DOS under an OS like OS/2 or Windows that can bridge the gap somehow. And sad for Fractinters, not a lot of video cards seem to provide much VESA support anymore. Depending on how demanding you are of your OS, W98 maybe just fine. David gnome@hawaii.rr.com