The OP will not be fine. As many people have posted XP Pro will work on a
PIII-733. What may cause problems is XP Pro's 10 incoming connection limit
when there are 12 users trying to use the printer.
Kerry
"Tony Penaherrera" <gismodfw@advantexmail.net> wrote in message
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> You will be fine when you XP Pro on your Pentium 3/733 because I'm running
> it on my P3 450mhz with 576 mb of ram. It would be best to maximize your
> memory size. XP Pro will take advantage of your system performance.
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> Tony
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> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote in message
> news:unOEw546FHA.4076@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> "Aaron" <Aaron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:55A14864-FF29-4F65-ACC8-C234E059AF43@microsoft.com...
>> > We are a Architecture and engineering firm with 12 production staff. We
>> > just
>> > updated several workstations and are considering replacing our current
>> > print
>> > server with one of the older production machines (yet newer than our
>> > current
>> > print server). Are there any reasons not to put XP Pro on a Pentium 7
> 733
>> > for
>> > use as our print server.
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>> Windows XP Pro has a limit of 10 connections. With twelve staff you will
>> have problems if more than ten try to connect.
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>> http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;314882
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>> The PIII-733 will work fine. Make sure you have at least 512 MB of ram
>> and
> a
>> at least a few GB of free hard drive space if many people are printing at
>> the same time.
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>> Kerry
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