233mhz 32mb....windows 95 or 98? what is better on this comp

[chiwawa626]

233mhz 32mb....windows 95 or 98? what is better on this comp
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450mhz 128mb....windows ME or 98? what is better on this comp

 

[AmdEmAll]

I would say 95' on the 233 and 98' on the 450. Windows 98 is slowwwwww on a 233.

 

[randypj]

Win95b (not a, if possible), on the slower system. 98 likes more RAM. I ran b w/20MB on a 486.
I have been satisified with 98SE on a 366@550. It was decent with 96MB, and >200MB helped a bit, but, 128MB should be fine. Photoshop is one of the programs that can make use of more RAM.
--Randy

 

[4824guy]

Win 95B is faster and uses less RAM than Win98 v1.

 

[mithrandir2001]

Bah! Win98 and Win95 are basically the same thing, just that Win98 is a little nicer and has some extra doo-dads. They are both based on the same kernel.

Use Win98 on both machines. Win98 doesn't use more memory than Win95 unless you activate some optional features.

 

[Modus]

Actually, Win98 does consume more resources than 95. With fast systems and large RAM, the difference is negligible, but on a 233 MHz with 32M, you'll definitely feel the difference when comparing clean installs of each OS.

Modus

 

[PCResources]

Modus is right here, W98 needs a more powerful CPU and more memory than W95.

I would recommend 95b for the 233.

Patrick Palm

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[Budman]

I would recommend Dos 6.22 & Win 3.1

 

[PCResources]

What will the 233 be used for?

Patrick

 

[chiwawa626]

the 233 for webbrowsin and word processing...and the 450 for mp3s..browsin...normal stuff mabey a game or two..

 

[chiwawa626]

howbout winme for the 450mhz p3? with 128mb its good rite?

 

[PCResources]

Then, for the 233 W95b would be a good choice.

For the 450 i would recommend W98SE, not ME, ME actually slows it down, it uses more memory, with 128MB you will be ok, but W98SE would still be a better choice.

Patrick Palm

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[LeoE]

Win98SE will work fine.

I upgraded a client's old POS Hewlett-Bastard (they're a pretty good company, I just like how that sounds!) Pentium/75 (16-->48MB RAM). I removed the moldy HP Win95 installation and fresh-installed 98SE. After the obvious fine-tuning (fixed-size swapfile, HD DMA enable, no bells/whistles like web desktop), the performance was an order of magnitude better than before. She could actually play Flight Sim 98 on that machine! Naturally, the improvement originates from the fresh installation and not Win98SE. However, Win98SE worked quite fine on the P75, if you disable unnecessary crap there shouldn't be slowdowns.

So it'll work fine, and the built-in IE5 will save you headaches. (don't use 98 first edition, it's a POS full of bugs)

 

[SuperSix]

With 64MB, Win95 will be much faster on the 233.