Who uses Windows 95?? - Page 2

*Fraoch* · 05-07-2004, 01:01 AM

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Originally posted by epicbard
yes you can... i've done it on a p2 266

An electronics technician at the place I used to work at had XP Pro running on his *CELERON* 300 laptop.

It actually booted up fairly quickly but some operations (like just moving around in Windows Explorer) took a very long time. What was funny is that the laptop belonged to the electronics maintenance department and the I.T. department wouldn't touch it. Good thing because it would never have run as fast as it did...

Using it an unheated building in January at -30C was an experience.

BTW I've seen (but never used) a PC running Windows 3.0. Yep, three-point-zero. The one Windows 3.1 improved on.

epicbard · 05-07-2004, 01:11 AM

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Originally posted by sumrtym
Good lord! What does that run like? <shudders>

Did you have more RAM than 128 MB?

yes, i think thats the trick... it runs fine... but some apps take a really REALLY long time to load... not to mention boot

traveler · 05-07-2004, 01:15 AM

WoW !!!

This thread is putting me in the mood to upgrade.

I think I'll increase the RAM I have from 4 megs to 8 megs in my win 3.1 system.

sumrtym · 05-07-2004, 01:19 AM

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Originally posted by traveler
I think I'll increase the RAM I have from 4 megs to 8 megs in my win 3.1 system.

I'll save you the trouble. I'll sell ya the one I'm replacing for the parents. It already has 8.....

Antique pricing may or may not apply....

BoWevil_abx · 05-07-2004, 02:17 AM

MY next door neighbor is running Win 95. He complains constantly about it and his 200 MHz Pentium I. He's too cheap to toss his system in the garbage where it belongs and join the the rest of us in the 21st century. He turns it on before breakfast and it finishes booting around noon.

Darkfalz · 05-17-2004, 09:31 AM

I put XP and Office XP on a Celeron 400 with 128 MB RAM for my sister, and it runs great. The only thing that makes it really slow is if you decide to turn on the visual effects, and since they aren't accelerated by that era's video cards (early AGP) they are all emulted by the CPU, so are SLOW.

I run Windows 95 on my 486 DX4/100 machine, but I'm mostly using that system in DOS mode.

KingTermite · 05-17-2004, 09:45 AM

We still have many work computers (in lab) that use DOS!

*Fraoch* · 05-17-2004, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by KingTermite

We still have many work computers (in lab) that use DOS!

Just before I left my last job, the lab finally replaced a 386 running DOS.

It ran the software side of a Perkin-Elmer gas chromatograph.

I often asked them why they didn't replace it. The gas chromatograph was worth ~$100K and it would be useless without the PC!

They finally replaced the lab instrument and the computer as well.

KingTermite · 05-17-2004, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Fraoch

Just before I left my last job, the lab finally replaced a 386 running DOS.

It ran the software side of a Perkin-Elmer gas chromatograph.

I often asked them why they didn't replace it. The gas chromatograph was worth ~$100K and it would be useless without the PC!

They finally replaced the lab instrument and the computer as well.

This is not the lab I work in now...but the other division I used to work at (same company..different building).

They used a 1553 bus analyzer card which the software that was developed by the company was back in the DOS days and didn't work under Windows. It was easier to go out of the way to finding old computers (it also had a limitation that computer couldn't be over 100mHz).

*SRTDodge05* · 05-17-2004, 06:43 PM

i have a dell laptop. p1 166mhz, 48mb ram. had a 2gb upgraded it to 10gb driver. i loaded windows 2000 pro with sp4 and office 2003. i have tons of other software from virus to picture software on it. and have a 11mb wireless card

**SubZero** · 05-19-2004, 08:50 AM

I chose to remain very far away from anything that looks like win9x. I have now come to hate those OS'es...

Unfortunately our department still has a couple of w9x notebooks.... I'll dispose of them ASAP!

Gavsman · 10-21-2004, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by count minaba

Windows what?

same here"windows what"

Gavsman · 10-21-2004, 02:10 AM

never used windows 95 since i bought my pc about 2 years back
that is a relief after seeing all these reviews

Lucas_Maximus · 10-21-2004, 08:37 AM

I use a 486 at home, running gaim for msn, OE6 and IE6 , winnt4.0 and it runs fine no problems at all, can play mp3's with winamp and I write letters and emails and browse the web. Does the job not terribly fast.

the nt installation is over 4 years old now, workin fine.

Raubar · 10-21-2004, 08:55 AM

I'n one of my scool lab's we have a bunch of 8086, with 12" yellow and black monitor (signed by IBM). And ... we are still using them in DOS for compilling assembler code. WHAT DO U THINK ABOUT THAT

05-07-2004, 01:15 AM	#18
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05-17-2004, 09:31 AM	#21
Darkfalz Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 605	I put XP and Office XP on a Celeron 400 with 128 MB RAM for my sister, and it runs great. The only thing that makes it really slow is if you decide to turn on the visual effects, and since they aren't accelerated by that era's video cards (early AGP) they are all emulted by the CPU, so are SLOW. I run Windows 95 on my 486 DX4/100 machine, but I'm mostly using that system in DOS mode. __________________ OS Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 CPU Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with HT (Northwood) Motherboard ASUS P4P800 Deluxe RAM 1 GB Kingston DDR400 3-3-3-8 Dual Channel Display NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 256 MB AGP Monitor 17" Mitsubishi Diamond View 1770 FD Sound SoundMAX Digital Audio Speakers DKL 3D-650 NIC 3Com Gigabit LOM Modem Marconi FLX Stream-ISG HDD Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120 GB HDD Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200 GB Optical SONY CRX300E CD-RW/DVD-ROM Optical SONY DWD18A DVD±RW Case AOpen KF45A-P4 PSU LC-B400ATX Keyboard Microsoft Internet Keyboard Mouse Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical
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