Ram Prakash wrote on Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:06:41PM +0530:
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| forced by market trends and enslaved by high requirements of MS's new
| OSes. The work that layman does
| MSOffice-Outlook/Email/NetBrowse-Solitaire need not require P4 and an
| XP. A Pentium(the very first) or 486 would do
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I didn't know XP can run on a Pentium (forget 486!) <g,d&r>
more seriously, desktop users do need decentish powerful machines for
all the GUI and application multitasking and such. If you are taking
about a router or a small CVS server, yes, pentium / 486 should be
fine.
cheers,
-Suraj
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