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Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction.  
Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction.  


Reading online this unit seems to be equipped with a 200Mhz(!) Pentium Pro processor
This unit is currently equipped with


The amount of RAM has not been directly tested, but according to the part number MT18LD1672G-6X may be 128MB (the max supported by the motherboard)
- A Pentium Pro 200Mhz(!)


At this time the machine does not (yet) have any uses. The Pentium Pro performs poorly with 16-bit code which makes running Windows 3.1 or 95 on it undesirable
- 128MB of EDO memory (max may be higher? Dell only shipped up to 128MB in this unit)


Early Linux may also be an option for this device as emulation via 86box is ''difficult''
- Two 120GB SSD's. One on each IDE channel (using Startech SATA to IDE adapters)
 
- Matrox Millennium II 8MB video card
 
- 3Com 3C950C-TX 10/100 network card
 
Currently it is installed with Windows 3.11 and "Stampede Linux" 0.90. Stampede is a Pentium processor optimized Linux distribution that derives from Slackware 7
 
Due to the distribution being end-of-lifed roughly 25 years ago it's likely to be replaced with a "Pentium Optimized Linux from Scratch" at a later date, pending purchase of a video card that contains an accelerated X server (the Matrox Millennium requires the "MGA" kernel driver and did not exist in 2.0/2.2 kernels according to research)





Latest revision as of 16:59, 4 August 2025

Recent pickup from a University of Washington (UW) auction.

This unit is currently equipped with

- A Pentium Pro 200Mhz(!)

- 128MB of EDO memory (max may be higher? Dell only shipped up to 128MB in this unit)

- Two 120GB SSD's. One on each IDE channel (using Startech SATA to IDE adapters)

- Matrox Millennium II 8MB video card

- 3Com 3C950C-TX 10/100 network card

Currently it is installed with Windows 3.11 and "Stampede Linux" 0.90. Stampede is a Pentium processor optimized Linux distribution that derives from Slackware 7

Due to the distribution being end-of-lifed roughly 25 years ago it's likely to be replaced with a "Pentium Optimized Linux from Scratch" at a later date, pending purchase of a video card that contains an accelerated X server (the Matrox Millennium requires the "MGA" kernel driver and did not exist in 2.0/2.2 kernels according to research)


Images of this device also show several (unknown) expansion cards from what ever it was being used for originally. These have been removed after photographing

XPS Pro 200N (front)
XPS Pro 200N (front)
XPS Pro 200N (rear)
PS Pro 200N (rear)