Shel Belinkoff wrote:
I ran a Win 98SE machine for a while, and had a USB card installed that
would allow for a card reader. However, it was limited to USB 1.0. I
don't think USB 2.0 had even come out at that time. In any case, it was
really amazing to see the difference in file xfer speed between the 98SE
computer and the then new XP box. Plus, of course, being able to run
Photoshop in a seamless fashion was a nice "feature" of the new machine.
However, I wonder about how XP would run on a machine with older hardware,
which is, in essence, how this thread got started. Doesn't XP have some
minimum hardware requirements that, quite possibly, an older machine might
not have?
Shel
That was my original point. If he(?) installs XP and then tries to work
with large files and a later version of Photoshop, he will be worse off
than if he upgrades to SE and uses a card reader. Even than, the
highest PS he can use will be 6 (possibly 7) so only JPEG files will be
available. But at least he will be able to do something. Otherwise, he
is looking at another financial "investment" of at least the size of his
camera to be able to play with his pictures.....
[Original Message]
From: John Francis
While Windows 98 SE added limited support for USB interfaces,
it was almost entirely restricted to native USB support on the
motherboard.
There were a few third party vendors who wrote their own drivers, but I'd
be prepared to bet these were only ever provided for early (USB 1)
devices.
