Re: [Thinkpad] OS Decision Time

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From: aballard_at_ix.netcom.com
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 11:26:35 EST


I ran Win9OS2 on a 486 and it was tolerable.

Depending on what you what you want to do....DOS/WFWG would be much more
responsive and stable.

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:47:56 -0500 "James H. E. Maugham" <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
wrote:

> The time has come to install some version of
> Windoze on my new (to me) 701C, so
> I thought I'd poll other users as to what
> they're running on their's.
>
> I've got every version of Win available from
> 2.0, WFW 3.11, etc., all the way up
> to XP. I'm leaning towards W95OSR2 or a W98Lite
> install as these are so
> relatively trouble free on all of the 486 based
> machines my users have.
>
> I'll probably throw the 6.4GB HD I have for
> this thing into the 2nd HD carrier
> of one of my other machines and load the
> install files on it, then put it in the
> 701 and install from there.
>
> Regards,
>
> James
>
>


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