JEAN PARROT wrote in a message to TOM WALKER:

 JP>         Hello Tom, we were saying ! 

 TW> Almost any system will "Puke" on you if you introduce a Boot drive
 TW> that is too far different, As far as Installed Drivers goes.
 TW> The reslection of hardware just is overwelming for the OS to handle
 TW> all at once.

 JP>         One more proof of this: yesterday I was trying to revive a
 JP> 1.2  MHz system with 1  gig of RAM. Before trying the XP Pro load,
 JP> I tried  to load Win 95 on it.  There was too much capability on
 JP> it, Win 95  puked ( you said it ) on it. It totally refused to
 JP> load. I knew that  there might be minimum requirements on some OS 
 JP> but a maximum ? 

Yeah,  I vaguely remember hearing that 95/98 couldn't deal with more than
some specific amount of disk space,  the same is probably true for ram, 
too.

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