Re installing XP on Sony

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:32:45 -0800 (PST), Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote: I don't know about the instruction set (if XP requires Pentium instructions or not), but I'd be surprised if there were any 386s that could be stuffed with enough memory to run XP (or RedHat 9, for that matter). By the time you get to 486s and 64 meg 72-pin SIMMs (yes... I do have machines with them, c. 1995, ex-CompuServe 32-bit nodes, no less), you _can_ stuff enough memory in them to run operating systems from 2005... the question that immediately follows is whether or not ones peripherals have modern drivers (yes... I have run into _that_ recently as well, with *5* year-old hardware, throwing out a *PCI* sound card because it wasn't supported). -ethan