13 Feb
2014
13 Feb
'14
3:22 a.m.
[SEVEN levels of untrimmed quotes deleted]
>>> I have more than 512 GB RAM on mine. 768
GB. No Complaints. 98SE might
>>> not use it all, but no complaints. You don't have to but 3 GB RAM in it
>>> just because it can handle it. I originally had 256 GB RAM in it and
>>> 98SE ran well.
>> Did you mean MB or GB??!?
>>
>> You really have 3/4 of a TERABYTE on a Windoze98 machine?
>> I had always heard that most of those machines could not comprehend more
>> than 4 GigaByte (32? address bits), and that Windoze98 couldn't tolerate
>> more than HALF a Gigabyte.
>>
The whole of win98... I have yet to find a machine that would not run it.
The only issue is that some of the newest boxen the drivers for the
modern gizmos may be an issue. Is winders, because, more ram and disk!
For those older versions like W3.1 and DOS I have multiple machines
like a pair of Dell 486/dx66 pizza boxes, Compaq Pizza box Celeron/333,
a few 1ghz/512MB Celeron white boxes, and if I get desperate a 386/sx25
box. They are handy for supporting old stuff as they have real serial
and parallel ports and are even networkable if need be. What is fun
is running old versions non-windows software like ConcurrentDos386
and OS/2warp3.
However I find wine and dosemu more than adequate for most tasks
and if desperate there is VMware, Virtualbox or SIMH.
Allison