the amd 64's ran 98 se. it installs in less 23 seconds or somthing me and a friend did it ran it for quiet a while i7 are multi core dunno how 98 would handle that.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: > On 01/28/2016 05:22 PM, Tothwolf wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: >> > > Windows 98 worked fine with a 1.4GHz Tualatin Pentium III (socket 370) >> and i815e chipset. It also worked just fine on a Pentium 4 and I suspect >> would work with a Pentium D or Core Duo using only one CPU core. >> > > I didn't mention that I've got 98SE running on an 820 chipset (RIMM/RDRAM > is silly cheap now) with a Tuallie 1.4GHz in a Powerleap slocket. It > doesn't much agree with the Crystal CS4622 audio, but perhaps that's just a > matter of finding the right driver. > > Windows 98 was supposed to support a maximum of 2GB of memory, however >> it has a bug in the Vcache driver which causes problems unless you limit >> the memory it can use to 1 or 1.5GB. >> > > Exactly what I've done with 440GX system. Using a different XMS driver, I > keep a 1GB RAMdisk there. > > On faster, more modern systems, I use VirtualBox. Just not worth the > extra trouble finding drivers--but I suspect 98SE will run on P4 systems as > well. > > --Chuck > >