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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey guys,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It so happens that I've chanced upon an offer to
get a 2.4GHz Athlon MP dual-proc machine, with 3GB Ram and all sorts of other
goodies, for quite cheap. A friend of a friend is a grad student at a university
that is upgrading a beowulf cluster, so they're getting rid of the old ones.
Anyway, in order to take advantage of the dual processors I'm gonna make the
move up to XP (boo! hiss! I know. But that's the wind of change for ya...)(PS:
As soon as I get more hard drive space I will be dual booting with
*nix).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But I don't have gobs of money to spend on it at
the moment (it all went to the computer), so I'm wondering two
things:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A) What's the situation with XP Home? Good? Bad?
Ugly? Can it handle the system specs?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>B) Until I get XP, can 98 handle this machine? I
know it won't take advantage of the 2nd processor or the 3GB RAM, but will it be
able to run? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brian</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>