Which OS for a 133 laptoptop with little ram?

[Turbopit]

I just bought a Dell Latidtude LM133 from the for sale section to use for email and to tune my drag car (Electromotive TEC II) with. I'll be doing a wirless network to share a DSL connection in the house/garage, or maybe wired since I did use individual cat5 runs to each phone jack in the house/shop. The program I use for my car is actually a DOS program, but I will be upgrading that to their "newer" windows based program.

The laptop currently has 24m of ram and a 2.1g HD.

Looking for an "slim" OS. I am using Win2000 Pro on my desk top.

thanks

 

[Blayze]

I would probably go with Windows 95 (the version with USB support)

 

[Flatline]

Win 95 would run the best, although Win 98 would run (slowly).

 

[Turbopit]

Thanks. The person I bought it from had 98 lite on it and said it was ok. I might just go with what ever I can find easily/cheaply. I'll probably bump the ram up to the max also. (72megs)

I just opened the box and already I am thinking of upgrades.

 

[beatniks3]

I'd go for 95b or 98lite (and get more ram if you can).

 

[Workin']

Win 98 SE would be my choice if you get more memory. 64MB would be plenty. Win95 is just too old, I'd only use that on P100 or slower.

 

[Abzstrak]

Windows NT4 stripped down will run better than win95/98... I'd go NT4

 

[Zim Hosein]

Turbopit, go w/ Win95, it ran quite well when it came pre-loaded on my old P133, hope this helps.

 

[RalfHutter]

I have an old NEC P133, 32Mb RAM laptop that I played with back in the day. It ended up with 98lite (the version that uses the Win95 explorer shell - no quick-launch toolbar etc.). I did lots of memory tweaks and such and got it to run pretty well. I also tried 95 and 3.1 on it. 95 didn't run any faster than 98lite so I'd say go with 98lite.