Bill - I'm not exactly a "heathkit" guy but I do have a wide range of computers... including a 90 MHz Pentium purchased from Zeos in 1994.
WinXP installed with less trouble on that whole range of machinery than any previous MSFT OS, and also those systems run better, including the antique. I also did a dual pentium box (TYAN motherboard, 233 MHz Pentium), a dual 200 PentiumPro, and some newer machines. One box was almost identical to the one the poster you quoted used, including the Matrox G400.
I suspect this guy, rather than being a geek, was not savvy enough to load the Win2K drivers for some of his gear. Win2K drivers may not be certified for WinXP but so far I have not had any problems with that combo.
Those are all RC1 systems - I plan to upgrade the whole lot to the "real" version of XP as soon as it is available, because XP is just a whole lot faster and more trouble free, especially in the network management but also in launching applications, executing linked code, and so on. I don't know exactly why it is faster than Win2K, which is substantially the same code base, but it is. |
