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I just noticed this. How does your kid play games on a 900mhz computer?
reading rabbit and dora the explorer probably don't require sli
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Herding my meese to prevent the squabble over the single rouse.
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I ran Win2000 on a Pentium 3 600 MHz with 128MB of RAM. It worked fine.
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One more vote for Win2K, I ran the pro version several years on a 800mhz/256mb celeron. My brother also runs in in his 850 celeron at the moment. Even on my current computer I switched to XP only due to some driver problem with my MP3 player (stupid Philips, only supports XP).
98, 98SE and ME are all very unstable and wouldnt recomment keeping any of them.
Edit: Sorry for bumping this back up...accidentally hit the back button in my browser and didnt notice I was on the last page of the area.
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Another vote for 2K. The performance difference between 98SE and 2K isn't that large if you have enough memory for 2k.
The compatibility and future-proofing of your system is much better with 2K though. If it works with XP then it will probably work for 2K, and XP support isn't dropping off any company's radar for quite a while.
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I ran XP on a 256mb 800MHz for years and it was fine. Now my girlfriend uses it, but the latest version of F-Secure antivirus, IE7 and the latest Windows Live Messenger slowed it down to a crawl because the 256MB doesn't cut it anymore. Before it was fine though, used to run Photoshop and Illustrator without problems.
So, I guess any OS would be fine, as long as you don't run any really new software on it. Win2K is probably the best bet, but for any abandoned OS, if it's hooked up to the internet, make sure you're patched and protected otherwise you'll be hacked, virused, and part of some botnet within an hour.
Another vote for Win2000 here. Solid OS, same kernel [effectively] as XP without the added bloat, and funs fantastic on lesser hardware. All remaining copies of Windows 9x should be found and destroyed.
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