On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 20:40:12 -0600, philo wrote:

On 02/18/2017 04:49 AM, Ant wrote:
sctvguy1 wrote:
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:30:20 -0600, philo wrote:

On 02/15/2017 03:12 PM, Wildman wrote:
On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:53:38 +0100, Linea Recta wrote:

"philo" schreef in bericht
news I was given a 2ghz AMD machine with 2 gigs of RAM and a bad HD
with XP. In theory that should have been ok for Win7

I replaced the drive and installed Win7


The machine must have been 15 years old and though Win7 would
install, the CPU has no SSE2 so I was not able to install any new
browser due to lack of H/W support.

The machine has now been sent to the recycler



So it had an older processor than Pentium 4?

Intel started SSE2 with the P4 in 2001 but AMD did not support it
until the release of the Opteron and Athlon 64 chips in 2003.




Thanks for the info.

It did not break my heart to recycle a 16 year old comptuer

As long as it was not an IBM PS/2!

Why? I had my own PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz and a borrowed P70 386
portable back then. I hated Microchannel Architecture (MCA) in the 386.
286 was OK without its MCA, but dang slow.




My PS/2 runs win95 extremely well!

I am looking for a PS/2 to run OS/2. I am having a hard time finding on
in my area.