Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the
install.
Mark Hillary
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From: "goldenpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
> Look at this number sequence:
>
> 512k
> 1m
> 4m
> 8m
> 32m
>
> see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows.
dos
> would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg.
> Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to
buy
> more.
>
> And look at processers:
>
> dos : 8086
> win3.11 : 80286
> win95 : 80386
> win98 : unknown
> win me : 166MHz
>
> thats enough that I managed to fty my laptop processor when I tried to
> overclock it and run windows me. It cost £25 for a new pentium 166.
>
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote:
> > Romanator wrote:
> > > Revenant wrote:
> > > > Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the
> > > > dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be -
the
> > > > fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line. It is supposed to be a
very
> > > > different beast to the Win9x line, including ME...
> > > Have you noticed that the OS is getting bigger and bigger? They are
> > > pushing our resources to their limits.
> >
> > <shrug> Our resource limits are increasing. Most software aims to
> > take maximum advantage of the hardware available. Now that the industry
> > standard machine is a PIII, I'd be disappointed if the OS didn't have
> > additional functionality.
> >
> > That said, Windows *does* seem to have more than its fair share of
> > bloat...
> >
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