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Originally Posted by theducks
At the top of the Windows download Page: XP appears to be minimum
W98 was the last DOS based kernel. XP is the NT based kernal.
If your hardware is really old as 98SE (ie P3), I would run Linux (dual boot if you have lots of free HD space).
Linux has way less overhead than XP and Calibre will use the rest 
BTW if you go the Linux route, forget the Distribution version... Waaaaay stale. Use the command line on the Linux page. |
Thanks for the reply.. As I mentioned before I thought the earlier versions of Calibre did run on Windows versions prior to XP which is why I was attempting to try out an archive rather than the new release. I've been giving Linux some thought but the new versions of it seem to be multi-gig monsters almost as bad as Windows and I've heard most new releases they don't allow too much for old hardware so getting things like a dial-up connection going can be difficult. My actual hardware could run much newer software but I'm not a big fan of newer Windows versions either.
(3GHz Pentium 4 currently with 512 meg ram but I can do 1gig without having to buy more)