I ran 2000 for about one year, a couple of month's after it was released.
What I remember was, that it was an ok system. A bit sluggish on a K6-II-500 with 32mb of ram.
I too remember that it was so much larger installed, compared to Win98.
Hmmm... What else.... Stable and such. I never had it running more than aprox that year.
2000 have never ever given me a BSOD and would run without reboot for days.
After that, I bought some more memory and upgraded to WinXP on the same machine.
When I ran 2000, I still had no real software for it. So I dualbooted it with Win98.
Only had ME installed a day or so. Totally buggy on that machine.
My parents had a different experience. They ran ME, solid, on a Compaq presario. No issues there.
EDIT:
The machine that I had during the trasition from Win98 to WinXP was the following...
- Gigabyte GA-5AX rev. 4.1
- 32mb Ram (128 when I had XP on it)
- K6-II-500
- TNT2-M64
- Creative SB-128 and SB16 CT2770 Value Edition.
- Gravis Ultrasound ACE.
- 4gb + 8gb + 800mb HDD's and an Acer CD-RW drive (early version without buffer underrun protection)
- Got my first V1 card for this machine (Orchid).
For a sidenote. I now remember that I actually used Tripple boot untill a year after I started using
WinXP, because of the GUS-ACE I used to have installed in this machine.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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