Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:18:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: other OS's
> I've just had a Libretto 50 dropped in my lap because its previous owner
> found it too slow. While I agree that 75Mhz and 16 Mb of RAM isn't state of
> the art, I hate the idea of pitching such a cool tool.
>
> My question is thus; what other OS's are out there that can run on this
> limited muscle (Win98 WinNT WinCE RedHat BEOS)?
all of the above and just about every PC emulator known to man. In other
words, if it can live within the 16MB RAM you've got (I'd upgrade IMMEDIATELY
to 32MB as it will even speed up Win95/98 by ~20-30%.).
Not all OSs will run natively. E.G. WinCE is not an OS you can usually get
to run on any PC natively w/o getting their WinCE development kit and porting
it completely to your particular system (which is why only WinCE PDA makers do
it). However, you can run the WinCE emulator under regular Windows and off you
go. (Albeit, why? There's a BIG reason it is called wincE! Incompatible with
regular Windows applications, less than 100% conversion of documents to the
WinCE formats, and generally yucky enough that I here at work got rid of 30
units years ago because they sucked big time.)
You can run Linux and VMWare (or WinNT and VMWare) and have multiple OSs
running in their own virutal system at the same time, albeit with LOTS of disk
swapping on a 32MB system.
Best bet for the L50 however? I'd stick with Win95 or Win98 + 98lite.net to
strip out IE and make it run far faster than 98 alone under 16MB of RAM. Other
OSs are okay as long as you give it 32MB of RAM, but will generally be sluggish
vs. Win95/98+98lite.net.
Also, overclocking to 100Mhz does wonders for adding a noticable bit of snap
to the performance, but only if you are willing to trash your Libretto entirely
if the procedure fails. My site below for how.
d =)
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