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Win 2000 is actually a little better than NT4 on minimum memory, but 64MB 
is still the lower limit, and a P90 is probably too marginal.

In general, the following link is useful:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/guide/professional/solutions/upgrading.asp

Also, there is a readiness analyzer at:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/upgrade/compat/default.asp

Allan

At 05:04 PM 10/8/2000, DH wrote:
> > Win 2000 is essentially NT5. It is significantly more stable than NT4, and
> > opens up excellent implementations of Plug and Play, USB, etc. Unless there
> > are driver issues (which are becoming few and far between), anyone using
> > NT4 should upgrade to Win 2000.
>
>Well maybe. An old saying I've found to be especially true with
>computers is if it ain't broke, don't fix it. My HP box with
>factory-installed NT is the first 'crashproof' computer I've ever owned
>and I'm in no hurry to improve on that.
>
>OTOH, I have an old P90 running TS4 on W95. It's limited by the BIOS to
>64 MB which isn't enough to effectively run NT. Does W2K require less
>memory or does it, like most Microsoft products, require more memory
>than its predecessor?
>
>--
>   Dennis