Win2000 on a Pentium MMX will be just fine, though you won't set any speed records. I have three such systems running in my shop as we speak. The key to making it work is memory... 128M should be a minimum, and if your boards support it, 256 would be preferred. A good video card and hardware-based (as opposed to "soft") peripherals (like your modems, sound cards and NICS) will help as well.
Oh, and be sure to do clean installs, not upgrades; and use NTFS formatted fixed disks. If they don't already know about it, your support folks should be deploying images using sysprep and some sort of cloning software like Ghost... this will at least speed up the process. -jim -----Original Message----- From: Peifer, William [OCDUS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 8:39 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: OT: Windows 2000 "features" Hi folks, Sorry for the OT note, but I just got a bit of unsettling news. (Unsettling, because management has apparently made some decisions that probably should be left to the discretion of our IT department....) Just got a note from the powers that be here at work asking if any of us are likely to have "issues" with a planned upgrade from Win 95 to Win 2k. Aside from the fact that Bill Gates is the Devil himself ;-), can any of our PDML operating system illuminati enlighten me about any major headaches such a conversion will either solve or create? Is it reasonable to use Win 2k as the OS for a PC running on a first-generation Pentium MMX chip (which is what sits on the desktops of all the 100 or so folks residing in my building)? Issues with running MS Office 97, Internet Explorer v5.5, or other typical MS desktop applications with this newer OS? Issues with running native DOS software (like industrial logic controller software)? Issues with running DOS windows from within Win 2K? Should this be a totally transparent to the typical user? Or will I suddenly feel an urgent need to go back to a typewriter, a lined pad, and a slide rule? Thanks in advance, Bill Peifer Rochester, NY - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
