I remember a few month ago, I maxed out the RAM on my old Athlon at 1 GB.
I was using a multi-boot setup with WinME, Win2k Pro, and SuSE Pro 7.1
When I tried to boot WinME, its OS kernel failed to boot; complained about "too much RAM." The other OSes booted successfully.
I do recall previously successfully booting WinME with 768 MB of RAM, which may be its limit. Maybe an M$ Certified expert can confirm this?
I assume that earlier Win9xs will have the same problem. This should be an innocent way to discourage use of older versions of Windows; especially with the latest, high performance hardware. The newer ones cost more out of pocket; and of course; the latest Win XP has the "product activation" which has been known to curb the enthusiasm of many M$ fans, whose normal mode of operation is known to M$ as "casual copying".
Rodney
At 10:06 PM 7/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Actually I remembered some more extra crap. DownloadWare, Internet Accelerators, all the IM programs. It was beautiful. Got down to less than 10% resources free on startup. Making BonziBuddy say horrible things was quite amusing too.
--- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 15:10:28 -0700 > "Patrick R. Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Do you have IIS for your Windoze? > > Yeah, you could put some endless loop script in there! > That'd keep it busy, without, uh... doing... anything. > > Also, maybe try to find some of the older, buggier versions of > the > software you're already using! ( = > > Maybe the experiment could be done with varying classes of > applications > or combinations thereof. What're your ideas of "doing > something"? > > regards, > > Ben
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