I have numerous customers using 600 and 600E machines because they need to
use a program that requires DOS, and can not run at over 400 MHZ. Many of
them use these machines online with wifi and/or Verizon Broadband adaptors
and Win98se, and as long as they run anti-spyware software they have no
problems. I don't even install anti-virus on these, because Norton is a cure
that's worse than the disease and AVG won't run.
The only virus I have seen on them in years is boot sector, which they get
by leaving infected floppys in the drive at boot up. So I just set all the
machines only to boot from the hard drive, problem solved.
----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Kellerbauer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600
In the year 2010, one shouldn't seriously advise anyone to go back to an
operating system that does not support pre-emptive multitasking. In
antique operating systems like Windows 95 or 98, rogue processes
invariably appear after some hours or days of operation and cause the
processor to run at 100% capacity, often without the ability to shut the
offending processes down. Ever since obtaining an early copy of Windows
2000 at the ITU Telecom convention in Geneva in 1999, I have never looked
back.
Windows 2000 runs very well on most early Thinkpads, usually better than
Windows 98, despite a slightly higher demand on RAM. Both Windows 2000 and
Windows XP can be optimized for older machines with the LitePC software
that selectively disables unwanted OS components. Lastly, I can highly
recommend looking into the operating system Windows Fundamentals for
Legacy PCs, which is a thin client OS based on Windows XP. I have
successfully installed and used it on a ThinkPad 570E and experienced very
good performance.
Cheers, Alban
Message: 6
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:53:46 -0500
From: "Bruce Markowitz" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600
To: "Simon Royal" <[email protected]>, "ThinkPad Mailing List"
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <004401caae9a$1de69dd0$6601a...@x20>
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That machine is an ace with 98SE, anything above that is just too slow.
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