![]() Late WinXP (2006): 2 GB DDR2 RAM, Core2Duo 2 GHz, GeForce 8800 GTS PCI-E.Mid WinXP (2003): 1 GB DDR RAM, Pentium IV 3 GHz GeForce FX AGP.Early WinXP (2001): 512 MB SD RAM, Pentium III/IV 2 GHz, GeForce 3/4 AGP.Generally speaking, there are also three “WinXP era” PC builds to be put together: The classic OS has had an extremely long lifespan, being discontinued in 2008, and having had the luxury of three officially released service packs. WinXP’s legacy only increased due to the unstable mess of its successor, Windows Vista. ![]() XP was indeed a bit special becuase it was supposed to replace both Windows Me for “home users” and Windows 2000 for “profs” (although out of frustration, I ended up working with NT-based systems more often than DOS-based). It is time to move on from Windows 98 and take the leap of faith, from DOS-based Windows operating systems, to one of the most popular Windows flavours of olde: Windows XP, released in 2001. Earlier in October, I blogged about building an athlon win98 PC which allowed me to replay Quake 1, 2, and 3 on original hardware.
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