Reply 40 of 163, by Joseph_Joestar
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Jo22 wrote on 2021-07-04, 05:21:@Joseph-Joestar ^Be careful with the Pentium 4, though! Some of its instructions were somewhat quick that DOS-based versions of […]
@Joseph-Joestar ^Be careful with the Pentium 4, though!
Some of its instructions were somewhat quick that DOS-based versions of Windows struggled.
Edit: Found the the article!
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-cras … -fast-machines/
It's the LOOP instruction that's so develish quick.
Interesting article. Based on what I've seen there, it looks like a Northwood Pentium 4 below 2.0 GHz should be fine with Win98SE, which is roughly what I had in mind.
And by the way, some of your components were something I didn't even dare to dream of in my early XP days. If I hadn't browsed v […]
And by the way, some of your components were something I didn't
even dare to dream of in my early XP days.
If I hadn't browsed vogons and other forums in the past years,
I wouldn't realize that these components are "retro" or anything worth, at all.
All the components that I suggested (except for the CPU + motherboard) were made before 2001. Perfectly fitting for a high spec Win98SE machine at the turn of the century. The fact that a lot of people (myself included) couldn't afford them at the time doesn't make them any less valid.