The message 200410101336.01354.ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com from Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.plus.com contains these words:
Shame - with SP2 it's not too bad now. You can turn the theme back to that classic Win2000 style too if the primary colours hurt your eyes.
Ahh but XP on a 450Mhz machine is only barely useable. If you max out the RAM and turn off all the effects you may just be able to live with it but it's still not very pleasant. My girlfriend has a small Sharp TFT/PC combined thing downstars that only has a 600Mhz Celeron, that also only runs 2000 well and even then only when I upgraded the ram to 256.
Hum - I used to run 2000 on that old Apricot all-SCSI server over there <----, and that has twin 90 MHz co-processors. It really wasn't that much slower than Win 98 on a 233 MHz box.
At least I can upgrade the 450 a bit - when I bought the bits I made sure that I wouldn't be stuck with that as a max speed, though I don't know how fast it can be persuaded to pedal.
But, it does only have 128 MB RAM.