I have some IBM Aptiva and Sony and HP 200mhz pentium computers and they came with
Win95
I have some IBM Aptiva Win98 computers that came with Pentium 233 or AMD K6
I think it was common after the pentium 200mhz they used Win98
Intel486dx33 wrote on 2026-01-23, 03:55:I have some IBM Aptiva and Sony and HP 200mhz pentium computers and they came with Win95 […]
I have some IBM Aptiva and Sony and HP 200mhz pentium computers and they came with
Win95I have some IBM Aptiva Win98 computers that came with Pentium 233 or AMD K6
I think it was common after the pentium 200mhz they used Win98
Yes. Well in '97, there were already PII systems in the stores that people could afford. And around the time Win98 released, the final round of PII's were also on the market. I remember people purchasing PII's with Win95 on it. I'd say the approximate transition was at the PII 300 MHz level. PMMX systems would have been super budget systems by mid-98 if the manufacturer decided to use them then. I know PMMX would have been budget, because even I had an PMMX chip in '97, and I never have spent really any money on any system I have ever built.
Win98 will run fine on a PMMX with plenty of memory, which everyone has enough memory now, but I was never a fan of the desktop enhanced IE4, and Win95 was an easy way to avoid that, and some people still do that.
Speaking of my own history with operating systems and respective systems, our originally family computer circa 1997 was a Pentium MMX 166. This had Windows 95 on it at the time.
Some time in 1998, I bought my first PC of my own, an AMD K6-2 333MHz. This likely would have had Windows 98 at the time, since I probably bought it in the latter half of 1998. I don't recall off hand whether our existing family computer would have also been upgraded to Windows 98, but it probably was at some point. But at that point, I was using my own AMD PC.
So I most associate my AMD K6-2 build and subsequent PCs with Windows 98, not Pentium MMX systems.
Which also goes back to the point of this project. I had previously built a re-creation of our old family PC circa 1997. The intent of this build was a theoretical 1997 build to see how it would have compared. Hence the 'fantasy' in the title of the thread.
