Re installing XP on Sony

[Ethan Dicks]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:32:45 -0800 (PST), Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
> XP won't run on pre 386 stuff.  I'm not sure it will even run
> on a 386, but Linux definitely will.

I don't know about the instruction set (if XP requires Pentium
instructions or not), but I'd be surprised if there were any 386s that
could be stuffed with enough memory to run XP (or RedHat 9, for that
matter).

By the time you get to 486s and 64 meg 72-pin SIMMs (yes... I do have
machines with them, c. 1995, ex-CompuServe 32-bit nodes, no less), you
_can_ stuff enough memory in them to run operating systems from
2005... the question that immediately follows is whether or not ones
peripherals have modern drivers (yes... I have run into _that_
recently as well, with *5* year-old hardware, throwing out a *PCI*
sound card because it wasn't supported).

-ethan