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Title: Any reason to NOT run XP in my cab??
Post by: mkdevo on October 21, 2003, 06:59:38 am

hello all,

trying to decide which OS to run in my cab - Win98SE, or XP Pro.. i would *rather* run XP, but can anyone give me any reasons why i'd be better off with 98, or is XP ok??

btw - Athlon XP 1.1ghz/768mb DDR/120gb HD

thanks!

Title: Re:Any reason to NOT run XP in my cab??
Post by: TalkingOctopus on October 21, 2003, 09:38:48 am

I don't think there is any reason to go with 98.  All that ram would go to waste if you ran 98.  Go with Xp.

Title: Re:Any reason to NOT run XP in my cab??
Post by: JoeB on October 21, 2003, 11:03:41 am

I would probably sell off 512MB of you RAM, and with the profits, buy a faster CPU.   ;D

Title: Re:Any reason to NOT run XP in my cab??
Post by: mkdevo on October 21, 2003, 11:35:18 am

yeah, i'm due.. this has been my mame pc for a while - before i even thought about building a cab.. just decided to wipe it out and start fresh, since i was way behind on mame updates anyways.. and i was running 98 before..

Title: Re:Any reason to NOT run XP in my cab??
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 21, 2003, 12:03:13 pm

At this point there is absoluetly no reason as dual mice are supported in xp via analog+ xp.