Author: George C Williams
Date: 23:05:07 02/27/05
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On February 28, 2005 at 01:48:14, Ray Banks wrote: >On February 28, 2005 at 00:29:46, George C Williams wrote: > >>Hi >> >> I just bought a compaq prisidio intel pentium 200 with 32mb of ram, windows 95, >>I expected the system to run very slow, surprisingly it pretty fast as far as >>changing windows ect, My question is will this system be ok for my son? just to >>surf the net, can he play any type of games? Will this system take windows XP if >>I add 128 mb ram? Or is a pentium 200 too slow? How about Windows Me. Can I >>expect atleast International Master strength? running rebel 4 dos. > >Avoid Windows Me, it was the worst of the releases. Add 128MB and put Win98SE on >it. If running those earlier OSs though on the internet I'd make sure you have >firewall software installed and AV of course, and use Firefox or an alternative >as the version of IE may not have all the latest security patches. XP could run >but I wouldn't on that box unless you have at least 256MB. Windows 2000 is a >possibility. Games are pretty much out of the question unless they are the same >vintage as the machine itself. >As for chess strength - not sure. If i use windows 98 se will it automatically find all the hardware like XP and Me does?
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