[Ham-Computers] RE: System Requirements

[Rick Adams]

	Aaron wrote:

> p.s.  A couple of points of correction for another poster... 
> The Pentium-II's started at 233MHz and the Pentium-III's 
> started at 450MHz.  Win "NT", not "XT".  And there were some 
> additional "flavors" of Windows...2.0x, Win95 OSR2, Win95 
> OSR2.1, Win95 OSR 2.5, and a couple others.  Not a flame or 
> rag...just corrections. =)

	<thwack!> I knew I was putting _something_ wrong in the
messages, but just kept typing "XT" anyway instead of "NT" as
(obviously) I should have been typing! Thanks for the "memory jog" :-)

	Incidentally, whether a 233MHz machine was actually the first of
the Pentium II's is a matter of definition. The Pentium Pro was,
literally, a Pentium II in terms of hardware design and it came in both
a 166MHz (briefly) and a 200MHz version (I had a couple of 200MHz
machines--under NT 3.51 and linux--before buying my current machines (a
P4-1500 & a PIII Xeon with dual processors). Literally, however, Aaron's
probably right about the 266MHz--I never bought a P-II (went from the
Pro's to P-III architecture) so I didn't really keep up with them at
first.

	I _will_ argue though that some of the "flavors" listed above
aren't really other versions of Windows--the OSR's are just service
releases and still Win95--just as Windows 2000 with the current service
pack (4, as I recall, although 5 may have come out since I last
installed a service pack) is still Windows 2000, not a new version. I
_did_ forget about Win 2.0, however, but so did most everyone at the
time as well! :-)

	Overall, I have to agree with the minimums above. I didn't
bother to list a 486 since so few still remain in service, and it's such
a marginal base for Windows 98 (you really need a much more powerful CPU
than a 486). The hams I know with 486's all use them as dos or linux
machines instead of as Windows platforms for that reason.

	73 de ke8hh, Rick