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Old May 25th, 2004   #18 (permalink)
Badaro
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Originally Posted by Razor Blade
First thing is first. Uninstall XP. For a computer that old XP is not a wise choice. Windows 98 would be ideal for it though. The coomplexity of the OS is gonna create sslowdowns also the drivers it comes with is meant for year 2000+ computers and also the fact that it was made for at least a 500Mhz (and that isn't fun to work on either)
I'd recommend Windows 2000 or Linux for that machine, both should run fine considering he has a pretty nice amount of RAM. I use a similar setup for a file server, works very well.

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