Hello, All.

I've got a nice older IBM Thinkcentre computer sitting here that I'd like
to use as my ham shack computer.  It's a 3.2gHz machine with 2GB of RAM and
would be great for doing digital stuff on.

The reason for this is that the computer uses the Intel "Extreme
Graphics" chip which is only properly supported under XP.  There is no
support from later versions of Windows due to changes in Windows' video
support.  I also need the DOS support for a few things I use.  I program my
Motorola radios using DOSbox which works much better than XP's DOS emulator
going through HAL.

I have several legal copies of XP including one from Dreamspark that is
registered directly to me, so being legal isn't a problem.

What I'm wondering is would XP be safe enough to run it as a ham shack machine?

I don't visit any weird sites on that machine, mainly only using the
Internet with DX Lab Suite accessing QRZ.com and HamQTH.com for logging
purposes.

Your thoughts?

Later,
Sean

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