From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 11:24:02 EDT
Well said, I second the motion.
BTW Has anyone noticed that the online price for W98SE
is higher!!! than that for XP ( which I really don't like!)
What a resounding vote of approval and confidence!
I would like to buy some legal copies of W98SE but
I don't like the prices that are asked.
-- Bert
"James H. E. Maugham" wrote:
> Steve,
>
> STeve Andre' [mailto:andres_at_msu.edu] wrote:
>
> > Really, I'm interested in hearing about what era ThinkPads folks
> > have gotten running with Windows 2000.
>
> As an exercise in what can be accomplished when one is bored, I've had W2K
> running on a 755CD (P75, 40MB) with good results. It was slooooooowwwwwwww, but
> it ran and was stable. I've also had W2K on several flavors of 760s.
>
> But, IME of supporting hundreds of "antique" machines, I've pretty much settled
> on the following norms for an OS on older Thinkpads:
>
> 755 series machines - W95OSR2. This is the OS of choice for most of the 486
> based machines. Even with only 16MB to 24MB of RAM and HDs that are normally
> under 1GB, the machines are stable and the speed is more than acceptable for WP,
> Spreadsheets and other office duties. They'll even surf adequately.
>
> 760 series (in general) - W98SE or W98Lite.
>
> 760Xx/765 series - These were the first Pentium MMX Thinkpads and are capable of
> running any OS well. However, with their memory limitation of 104MB, they tend
> to do better with W98SE than newer releases like W2K or ME.
>
> 570/600/770 series - All of these machines are perfectly happy with any OS you
> care to load. They are able to take more than 256MB RAM and large HDs, and IBM
> continues to support them with new drivers where necessary.
>
> A/T/X series - Anything you want!
>
> Regards,
>
> James
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