Can I squeeze Win98 on this thing

[Buddha Bart]

I've got a P75 with a severe case of OS-rot (win95) that I'm about to reformat. I was wondering if it would be just as easy to install win98. Or could it not handle it?
16meg of ram.

bart

 

[Blayze]

I have run Win98 on a P75 with 16 megs of ram before.
it was slow, but it will run

 

[DAM]

yeah im sure it will be able to take it, but why would you want to? you can run a perhaply stable alt-OS and would definetly run "faster" than win98. consider linux or BeOS.



dam()

 

[AndyHui]

You're probably better off with sticking to Win95, or at least OSR2 or OSR2.5. Seems to have less bloat than Win98.

 

[Dag]

I have had 98 running on my old 486 with a cyrix 133 OD chip with 16 meg of ram since 98 was released. It is actually much snappier than I could ever get 95 to be. It seemed to handle some of the odd hardware the machine had a bit better as well.